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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: kidink on January 24, 2020, 08:33:15 AM

Title: How small is too small?
Post by: kidink on January 24, 2020, 08:33:15 AM

Tiny spot color logos as sleeve prints.. base + 4/5 color plastisol at around 30mm wide.. worth the hassle?

Title: Re: How small is too small?
Post by: mooseman on January 24, 2020, 09:09:07 AM

Get a digital heat press logo from Stahls and save yourself a ton of headaches.
here is the info..........
CAD-PRINTZ® Full Color Digital Transfers/Logos
https://www.stahls.com/cad-printz-custom-digital-ordering (https://www.stahls.com/cad-printz-custom-digital-ordering)
mooseman

Title: Re: How small is too small?
Post by: Dottonedan on January 24, 2020, 09:30:23 AM

Quote from: kidink on January 24, 2020, 08:33:15 AM

Tiny spot color logos as sleeve prints.. base + 4/5 color plastisol at around 30mm wide.. worth the hassle?

Moosman has a good alternative.  The only thing I'd include in your consideration is the quantity.  Large quantities would lean more towards screen print.  Low quantity, like 12-200, you can heat press.  Over that, I'd screen print it.


So if Screen printing, "what is too small" for a multi color print?


I've done sim process neck tags or "Nape prints" as small as 2"wide before. Multi color spot colors at 1"
For those, or even Left Chest sim process, I go with a higher LPI like 65. There isn't much room in the art at those sizes for any good color transition. Very compressed, but it's all you can do. They work out just fine.

Title: Re: How small is too small?
Post by: mk162 on January 27, 2020, 12:53:30 PM

you can always get a double platen heat press and do one while lining the next one up.  I like transfers because if we are busy I can put an employee on those and free up the press.