Categories: Prepress & Screen Making

Saati’s New Screen Mesh for Water-Based Inks

Saatilene Hi-Dro screen mesh from Saati is woven from high-modulus, low-elongation monofilament polyester threads and features a proprietary surface treatment developed for garment-printing applications using water-based inks. The mesh was engineered to use thinner thread diameters than standard comparable mesh counts, allowing for better ink flow due to the increased percentage of open area. Other advantages reported by Saati include better results with fine details and halftones, less mesh interference, faster print speeds especially with white underbases, and reduced risk of the ink drying in the screen. The mesh is said to have excellent antistatic properties and the corona treatment used to change the mesh surface is said to be long-lasting.

Adrienne Palmer

Adrienne Palmer is the editor-in-chief of Big Picture and Screen Printing magazines. She joined Big Picture magazine in 2012 after graduating from Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism with a BA in magazine journalism. During her time with Big Picture, she has held the roles of assistant editor, associate editor, and managing editor; she added sister publication Screen Printing magazine to her resume in 2019. She is a 2019 Folio: Top Woman in Media; spearheads Big Picture's annual Women in Wide Format Awards and Best of Wide Format Awards as well as Screen Printing's annual Women in Screen Printing Awards; is on the board of Printing United Alliance's Women in Print Alliance and the U.N.I.T.E. Together diversity and inclusion program; hosts the Screen Saver podcast; and represents the Big Picture and Screen Printing teams at numerous industry events year-round as a speaker, moderator, and panelist.