Many know that the flood bar on an automatic and the flood stroke move the ink into position for the squeegee but many do not fully understand the more important task. The flood bar spreads ink along the length of the screen yes, but it also forces the ink into the mesh and "stencil well". The Stencil Well is the thickness of the emulsion layer on the "print side" of the screen that holds the ink until the squeegee "sheers" that connection and transfers the ink to the garment. Remember our conversation about "proper screen drying", now you are putting that to work. This is why only a small amount of squeegee pressure is actually needed. You want as much ink as possible to be left behind on the garment and not scooped back up by the squeegee.
Frankly speaking, you need to know this if you are to be a good Screen Printer. This is how Screen Printing is done.
Now you know more than you did before about "high-density" printing. Funny how all this stuff is connected.
