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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Rockers on June 13, 2017, 08:15:07 PM
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Would it be advisable to put the black text on a separate screen away from the halftones? Goes on white tees.
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I usually put the text on a separate screen unless, the halftone screen would work on a 225, that way I can get by with one stroke to get opake lettering. If I had to put the halftones on a 280, then definitely a separate screen to avoid blowing out my image trying to get opake lettering.
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An alternative is to add percentages of other colors in the separations. With the process black printing solid that should leave you 140-160%, whatever the total ink limit is for the print. For example, in a 4 color process, black text at 100% and the cyan magenta yellow set to print at 45- 50% behind the black.
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We typically do text, flash then the other colors.
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We typically do text, flash then the other colors.
I might do this. But I'd also consider skipping the flash, and using the "heavy black" text screen to beef up the most saturated areas of the photo image, too.