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Title: how would you print this???
Post by: sportsshoppe on August 05, 2015, 07:10:18 PM

Light shirts hopefully white

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: cbjamel on August 05, 2015, 07:30:03 PM

CMYK or Sim-process.

Shane

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: DannyGruninger on August 05, 2015, 07:49:05 PM

I suck at cmyk but I would use two cmyk inks in this to print using sim process style seps -

Cyan blue (process color)
Yellow (process color)
Dark Blue
Red
Black
Highlight White


Process blue + process yellows will make all the greens, then use halftones for everything else. If you are printing on non white shirt then add the base and should be good to go. 6-7 screens total

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: ZooCity on August 05, 2015, 10:28:32 PM

We would be similar to Danny on this.  Most of our work with art like this is somewhere between 4CP and spot/sim process.   My ideal is to avoid allowing the interaction of any 2 screens to have a big impact on the overall print color accuracy as that can frustrate your production of the print but we are limited to 8 print colors on lights here so we deal with it more often than not.  With more print heads available I would run this at a higher color count, just to make it more production friendly, consistent and repeatable.   Nobody likes regging up and then going through 20+ testers only to have a color shift a couple dozen prints into the run.

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: willy35 on August 06, 2015, 01:36:25 AM

I don't know if any of you have seen the hydra process print and tried their 4YOU 4 colors separation service,  the color accuracy is great.  The sample print I have seen,  stunning, the comparison with a dtg print,  increadible.

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: JBLUE on August 06, 2015, 01:45:59 AM

If you have enough heads to play with I would Index it. It would retain a lot of the canvas detail.

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: mk162 on August 06, 2015, 08:38:14 AM

how many shirts?

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: kingscreen on August 06, 2015, 10:34:06 AM

CMYK+Red

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: sportsshoppe on August 11, 2015, 01:42:55 PM

not sure on shirt count mk, may be contracting to you on your dts system :)

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: dirkdiggler on August 11, 2015, 06:46:54 PM

we would index it, lots of colors, but it would be better than cmyk.  If space is an issue, then cmyk

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: tonypep on August 12, 2015, 08:01:53 AM

Minimum 12 screen sim pro if you are going for the 90%+ accuracy range. CMYK will likely yield 65% to 75% at best. I've posted pics of painting replications previously and that's how we do it. You have brush strokes there as well

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: Sbrem on August 12, 2015, 08:28:52 AM

If on white, and the customer would pay, I'd go with the full 10 colors our press holds, sim process, or maybe indexed (Just did an index sep yesterday, it's been a while)

Steve

Title: Re: how would you print this???
Post by: mk162 on August 12, 2015, 09:14:40 AM

if on white i'd go DTG ;)  no seps, no screens.  Even if it was 100 pcs.