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screen printing => 4 Color and Simulated Process Printing => Topic started by: cleveprint on February 21, 2014, 10:19:08 AM

Title: how would this work?
Post by: cleveprint on February 21, 2014, 10:19:08 AM

hey all. customer came to me with this art. i could probably get away with 6 spot colors. but their artwork is setup where colors are overlapping to create some of the other colors. id love to give it a shot, but i have no idea where to start with something like that. i would assume transparent inks or process? going on black too.

Title: Re: how would this work?
Post by: tonypep on February 21, 2014, 10:37:49 AM

I would test the DC colors using the jig below. If they blended just right then you could print:
DC white w/base
no flash
DC yellow
DC pink
DC red to crush
saves a couple of screens, if not straight dc 6 colors

Title: Re: how would this work?
Post by: jvanick on February 21, 2014, 10:54:38 AM

that's almost like something we printed a few months back:

(http://www.oaknet.com/gallery/var/resizes/Screen-Printing/Samples/IMG_4150.jpg?m=1381098408)

ran it as a DC underbase, with standard process cmyk inks on top.

Customer was happy with the result.

Title: Re: how would this work?
Post by: cleveprint on February 21, 2014, 11:00:44 AM

very cool. i think ill be coming in this weekend to play around. id like to print it with something other than plastisol. DC seems like its the way to go.

Title: Re: how would this work?
Post by: blue moon on February 21, 2014, 11:06:41 AM

two thoughts . . .

if you are going to print it as sim process you should send it out and have a pro separate it. this would show you how it's done so you can do it next time. Also if printing sim, you might have a problem hitting those colors right on. If they have to match exactly, you might be better off going with spot colors.

pierre

Title: Re: how would this work?
Post by: myseps on February 25, 2014, 09:54:50 PM

You should be able to use the "pathfinder" tool in illustrator to split the overlapping colors into separate spot elements.

Title: Re: how would this work?
Post by: cleveprint on February 26, 2014, 09:53:21 AM

well did some farting around with this last night after hours. i had some union plasticharge laying around and decided to give this a go (disregard awful registration and cell phone pics. just threw it in to play around). i printed this 3 colors, yellow and two pinks. i definitely got a cool effect... i have to play around with my final colors, but overall i think it turned out pretty cool. i got the color blending i was hoping for. my customer is not too specific with pms matches, so i have a little wiggle room.

Title: Re: how would this work?
Post by: tonypep on February 26, 2014, 10:25:39 AM

Very good for first try. Helps if the customer isn't dead set on PMSs