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Artist => General Art Discussions => Topic started by: Boldline on June 06, 2016, 10:19:28 AM
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Hey everyone,
I designed a logo for a client who know wants to put it full front, nice and large on shirts. I am new to getting shirts done with waterbase or discharge methods, but I was wondering if this was an ideal candidate for that over traditional plastisol. Reason being, I see a lot of ink real estate on the shirt and I worry about it being a "shield of ink".
They also want to consider doing the design on a multitude of shirt colors... so I was thinking if I did it as a four color, it could go on different dark colored shirts regardless of whether the color was part of the design or not, and if I kept it on light colored shirts, I could do the same.
Any advice or wisdom would be appreciated!
Mat
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If you want to go discharge, the shirts will need to be dischargeable (well, duh, right?) so you have to have a color list of dischargeable shirts for the customer to pick from for starters, then careful planning, but I'm sure the others will start chiming in. There is also plastisol on overprinting a discharge base as well...
Steve
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Not trying to discourage you, but if you don't have much experience with discharge, I wouldn't recommend starting out with a large multicolor design. Discharge underbase on the other hand is a bit more flexible as you only have to worry about one discharge screen.
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I think Waterbased is the way to go. Find some nice 100% cotton shirts, and you shouldnt have a problem. I would say discharge, but the orange shirt color may be a bit of an issue. I could be wrong though, I dont use discharge that much. You could even go with a s mesh screen for the base, and a top white in plastisol, and that would help with the hand. Just my .02$
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Don't forget about his technical hurdles with his halftone fade in the text.
Not a simple task for a beginner.
Depending: outsource for full discharge. In house do a discharge base.
Can your set up fully cure discharge?