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How accurate are your colors?

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tonypep:
We are redheaded stepchildren to be sure. Fact is, the ink companies know that most textile screen printers don't require sophisticated color matching for their customers. Again most. By a lot. This is why they usually carry 60+ RFU stock colors. Then there was Andy Anderson who had more than forty custom flesh tones made in house without color measurement tools. Or at Harlequin Nature Graphics we never used the Pantone book at all! We had hundreds of our own colors using our own alpha-numeric identification system. For the most part textile screenprinting is too much of a diverse application to bring under strict controls unlike processes like offset, where all manufacturers of CMYK inks had/have to adhere to very strict standards.
Did I just stir the ink pot?

CBCB:
More standard inks is going to help us a ton with less mixing.

The 156 mesh onto a white T-shirt should be something that they tell everybody, but that is basically what we’re doing for the test as well. We make our own tweaks for base etc.

So it gets me frustrated as how many people, especially veterans are industry, even educators, dismissing this problem.

The example they always use is how it changes on a base, etc etc.

That’s so much more than what we expect, which is simply just that it’s the right colour when we print it onto the white shirt through 156.

Is that too much to ask? I know it’s a lot of colours.

On the other hand, it’s only 2500? 3000? I find it hard to believe they haven’t all been mixed and corrected by someone in our industry at some point.

So I blame the manufactures lol for not making it easier to use, improve, and all benefit from it. The work has been done 1000 times per colour by our industry for sure. If anything I’m just asking for a system to stop repeating the same work over and over again.

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