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screen printing => Ink and Chemicals => Topic started by: Fresh Baked Printing on January 04, 2012, 02:42:56 PM
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Thinking about getting a white, heather and black tee and maybe just using a cardboard stencil, squeegeeing a print a thumb dabs size worth of each ink color I stock onto each shirt color.
What you think? Dumb?
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Not dumb, but a fair amount of work
I do this on some common colors for which I offer choices, especially custom mixes that have become standards, like yellows, and greens and blues.
Years ago, Union's Navy was really dark, and I mixed it 50/50 with Royal to produce what I called "Cal Blue". When swatches were compared, many folks chose it over the stock Navy.
It also comes in handy when someone's artist wants a Pantone color, but I show them one of my "stock" colors which is close.
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I need to do it again, but I've done white pellons like this for stock and custom colors--I just used a 1/2" section of a vinyl squeegee without a screen. It's handy in that you can tell by the look of it how opaque an ink is.
The grey and black are a good idea, although the easy way I was doing it wouldn't work... if you were doing black, would you print an underbase and overprint?
The original reason I did it was for "sale" colors--we gave a bunch of customers a nickel a print off if they picked custom ink colors we overmixed and would never get orders for.
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here is what we have
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee12/socalfmf/swatches.jpg)
plus we use names like Palomar Red, Palomar Blue ect...so that way we know what color it is but the customers if they leave will not...ahhahahahahahah...
we have about 5 of these panels...
sam
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Here is what I used to do. When printing a job that had a color I wanted sampled on these fabric blanks we have I would finish the run then tape off a square then slide the fabric panel to where I need it and print that color. Takes longer but no extra work.
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here is what we have
Sams way works very well. You can hole punch and store them in a 3-ring binder. .