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| Stranglehold77 |
 Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:43 am |
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There was a couple of questions regarding the technique I was using to print the Neptune shirts. It's called Process Printing and it uses the basic color blending idea that is used in magazine or newspaper printing.
First, you use very specific inks. The four inks are yellow, magenta (pinkish red), cyan (blue) and black. The black is normal ink but the other three are very thin to allow mixing with other colors on the shirt
the camera kind of changes the color of the inks in the pic. the magenta is quite a bit pinker.
Now ideally Process printing is done on a white garment. this is so the print can be done wet on wet so the colors can blend properly. Another good thing about this is that the ink seeps into the shirt (because it's thin) so you can barely feel the print. Process can be done on other colors of shirts, but you must have a layer of white beneath it and must spot dry between colors. The end result is still good, but not quite as nice as when it is on a white shirt.
The typical print order is Y,M,C,B but it can be changed in order to slightly change the shades of color in your print.
Here's how it looks:
first yellow
magenta
cyan
and finally black
and there you go. |
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| Stranglehold77 |
| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:44 am |
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| sorry about the pics being all differnt sizes. I'm not sure what I did there. |
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| toomuchjunkhere |
| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:28 am |
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| So, is that basically four different screens then? I haven't tried to process print before. |
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| Stranglehold77 |
| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:55 am |
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| yeah, it's 4 screens. the goal is to be able to have as many colors as you want in the print and only use the four screens. the ink mixes on the shirt to create teh greens and purples etc. |
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| newrepublicsteve |
| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:14 am |
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I have done process a lot in the old shops I used to work at....
I am just waiting to get a bigger press before we have a go at it here
but that image looked perfect good work bro. |
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| dine alone |
| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:37 pm |
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| Do you have to print wet on wet or do you flash between colors |
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| Stranglehold77 |
| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:11 am |
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dine alone wrote: Do you have to print wet on wet or do you flash between colors
on white T's it is preferred to print wet on wet so you can get he colors blending together. When printing on a black or dark T, you'll be printing on a white mask so wet on wet is really out of the question. A lot of smearing.
to answer your question, you could spot dry all the colors but I don't think it would look as good.
Ty |
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| bobby |
| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:19 pm |
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| thats awesome, Thanx for posting the process,i have only been screening a little over a year,mostly stickers,but primarily road signs,its my job,but taught me a cool trade. |
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| dine alone |
| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:03 pm |
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Still on separations subject
I dont have a postscript printer and plus ive tweaked around in Photoshop but still cant come up with a solid enough method for seperations
Anyone out there have a separations plugin for Photoshop CS on Mac platform, im losing hair |
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| ThrashCan |
| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:17 pm |
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i dont have an auto sep thing either. Sometimes I use the threshold feature in photoshop. Its under file>adjust>threshold.....I think. I have photoshop 5.5
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