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screen printing => Waterbase and Discharge => Topic started by: tonypep on February 06, 2014, 11:49:02 AM

Title: DC Blends
Post by: tonypep on February 06, 2014, 11:49:02 AM
2 screens+no base=no dots+max impact w/minimum effort.
Title: Re: DC Blends
Post by: Sbrem on February 06, 2014, 12:00:09 PM
How do you get the gradations without dots? Or do you mean they don't show once printed and sent through the dryer?

Steve
Title: Re: DC Blends
Post by: tonypep on February 06, 2014, 12:03:58 PM
The latter
Title: Re: DC Blends
Post by: Sbrem on February 06, 2014, 12:08:37 PM
My guess was good then. We're trying to incorporate more here, but most of the jobs we produce are on garments that don't discharge. Still, I have some ideas I'd like to push to some schools we've picked up, in which we show them prints on garments that do... thanks, Tony.

Steve
Title: Re: DC Blends
Post by: Screened Gear on February 06, 2014, 01:18:01 PM
Tony (if you can answer this) what LPI and screen mesh did you use?
Title: Re: DC Blends
Post by: tonypep on February 06, 2014, 01:23:38 PM
Sorry not allowed. Truly sorry
Title: Re: DC Blends
Post by: jvanick on February 06, 2014, 01:43:41 PM
Nice print Tony!  Almost reminds me of a split fountain.

I really need to start experimenting with this more...

when we do sim process DC, even at 55lpi, I can still see the dots... even when 2 colors are blending together.



Title: Re: DC Blends
Post by: tonypep on February 06, 2014, 02:06:43 PM
Thanks thats the desired effect. We do these all the time. You can pretty much split fountain in any direction or multiple directions. Radials etc.
Title: Re: DC Blends
Post by: ebscreen on February 06, 2014, 02:12:01 PM
Not as dramatic as Tony's, but here's a crappy pic of a blend we did a while back. It's actually harder
for us to do a subtle blend then it is with two contrasting colors. Probably spent 2 hours remixing inks on this one.
Light orange is a 230 solid, dark orange is 280 55lpi. One stroke each, the white screen crushed 'em.
This particular shirt had been used as a rag before taking the picture. We're not so good at photographing jobs.