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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: sqslabs on January 06, 2015, 10:13:45 AM

Title: How many colors?
Post by: sqslabs on January 06, 2015, 10:13:45 AM

It seems as soon as I got the capability, the multicolor jobs started showing up.  How would you guys print the attached logo?  Its a ton of spot colors, but I'm thinking some of them can be achieved using gradients, and would like to use as few as possible as it will only be a 100-200 shirt run. 

Thanks.  8)

Title: Re: How many colors?
Post by: tonypep on January 06, 2015, 10:21:07 AM

4 CP for whites/lights

Title: Re: How many colors?
Post by: sqslabs on January 06, 2015, 11:16:43 AM

Quote from: tonypep on January 06, 2015, 10:21:07 AM

4 CP for whites/lights

Yeah its on white, forgot to mention that.  I've been shying away from 4cp for a long time, looks like its time to get my feet wet.

Title: Re: How many colors?
Post by: Different on January 06, 2015, 11:23:22 AM

Looks like you could do it with 5 colors without any difficulty.

Title: Re: How many colors?
Post by: Dottonedan on January 06, 2015, 11:33:00 AM

yellow, Magenta, Cyan, (dark blue replaces black) and purple type.

I figure the only area of black would be making up that dark blue so why use black halftones ( when there is no other black in art) when you can use a solid spot of blue and assure its more accurate.

Then, don't try to process that purple type. Use a spot color. It's more consistent and easier to achieve color accuracy.  Large masses of consistent cmyk often reveal any imperfections in the halftones or screens.

5 colors.

Title: Re: How many colors?
Post by: sqslabs on January 06, 2015, 11:45:23 AM

Awesome, thanks everyone.   8)

And Dan, I'll be contacting you for the seps if the order goes through.

Title: Re: How many colors?
Post by: Itsa Little CrOoked on January 06, 2015, 11:47:39 AM

Quote from: sqslabs on January 06, 2015, 11:16:43 AM

Yeah its on white, forgot to mention that.  I've been shying away from 4cp for a long time, looks like its time to get my feet wet.

I'd suggest you just let Dan Campbell sep that for you. He never beats his own drum so I will.

1) it'll just WORK, period. And he'll give you some how to's
2) you can start learning how

5 colors, for a hundred pc count or two oughta work.

My 2 cents.

Stan

Edit:  My advice seems unnecessary. You beat me to it by 2 minutes!

Title: Re: How many colors?
Post by: Dottonedan on January 06, 2015, 11:54:36 AM

Thanks for the props!

I"d be happy to do it. A less difficult job like this, I charge by the job. $40.00 at 4 or 5 colors, no difference.
My normal sep charge per color for the average and difficult process and sim process runs 15.00 per color.

Thanks
Dan

Title: Re: How many colors?
Post by: tonypep on January 06, 2015, 12:12:37 PM

Perfect candidate for 4CP. Primary and secondary colors. And yes drop the black for the purp if you like. Union tru-tone for me. They SWOP approved