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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: stitches4815 on May 09, 2014, 05:04:22 PM
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Is this something that you would mess with as far as screen printing? It will be printed in black on gray shirts. Do you think there would be too much black? I know if I do I will be using at least a 255 mesh. Opinions anyone?
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Yes I would do it, I would bump the mesh up some maybe 280 to hold all the detail and plus give it a softhand feel, should be able to hit it in one stroke but me I'd have to to do two LOL
Darryl
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I would do it but would probably do a 305 since I dont have any mesh counts between 230 and 305 lol
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rock that out like the guys above said, go High on your mesh, you'll be good!! Hand drawn stuff makes the customer so happy to see printed on shirts.
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I maybe would also tweak it a bit to make it a wee lighter to compensate for my gain.
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If I was to do that, I'd use 2 screens, probably both 280; one with everything on it, and the second with just the darkest parts. Your grays will come out nicer, and your darkest areas get 2 hits (one from each screen) and you end up with an extended tonal range that one screen generally won't give you. It's an old trick I read about in an old Kodak book for printers... some call him "Duotone"...
Steve
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I like prints like this with a dark grey & a black. High mesh on grey, 156 for the line work
Murphy37
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It'd be one 305 for me. I've been digging stochastic dots for stuff like this.
Gotta be dialed in for gain, but you're home free after that...
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I maybe would also tweak it a bit to make it a wee lighter to compensate for my gain.
Also I would put about 2% to 5% HD-clear to control dot-gain even more. 305/34 would be my mesh.