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screen printing => Waterbase and Discharge => Topic started by: tonypep on January 04, 2013, 03:31:26 PM
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So simple they even let me do this on my trusty little Gauntlet Two screens too simple
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another nice print with simple execution.. thanks for the post tonie
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Thanks Rick. This was a 200 piece order that set up and ran so fast it was set up, run, and tore down in 20 min. By an old man BTW! We are realizing meaningful extra margin here. Less ink (which is much less expensive anyway) no flash one less film/screen/setup. To boot the blends are rocking our Christian theme biz so we keep getting requests for more. And we use them a lot when designing our own.
And the press ops are loving it.
Happy Friday everyone
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That's the beauty of using discharge, hope I get to use more this year, jobs print so fast you don't get sick of looking at the print.
Darryl.... Nice Job by the way
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Quick question Tony. When you print something like this, do you print the full image in yellow then print the other color with halftone fade over top, or do you have two halftone screens meet in the middle to blend?
What line screen did you use? The blend looks great.
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One of our artists, Laurel, is a real pro at this. We played around with different techniques till we finally nailed it. While you can do the yellow as 100% and the orange halftoned on top we found that inverting the halftones lends itself to discharge much better and creates the seamless continuous tone effect
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Another one. We do these almost daily they've become so popular. 4 screens no base.
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These are really nice!
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Thanks Rob (sorry Sericol!) A rare example of when a combination of art and print technique comes together and is having a palpable effect on sales. In just three years our faith based division has grown from 75K to 850K annually. The sales team tells me that this has a lot to do with it.
And did I mantion how easy it is? :)
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Man these are really slick. Really slick
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Todays blend. Different twist on an old logo.
Must...resist...urge..to...keep ...posting....these
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I will have one to post next week. Good or bad! Pastel red fade into pastel yellow with an orange hue in the middle. Artwork doesn't have bright colors so I'm trying to match the proof, muted pastels on black!
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New Irish fade for the Brick, which was normally either black or white plastisol. Already reordered the Neon fade. This a test run of 72 for St Pats. Posted this mainly due to the difference in the uncured vs cure shirt. Notice how harsh it is befor curing vs the smooth blend after cure. 3 colors discharge no base
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One of our artists, Laurel, is a real pro at this. We played around with different techniques till we finally nailed it. While you can do the yellow as 100% and the orange halftoned on top we found that inverting the halftones lends itself to discharge much better and creates the seamless continuous tone effect
I would love to know how to invert the halftones. How is that exactly done in photoshop.Playing around with it already the whole morning and I`m not any closer to the solution.
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Nice prints, Tony. And you have a good artist as well!
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Thanks Brandon. I have to say that bringing discharge back to this company is absolutely bringing tangible added sales. One of my sales managers says so every day. It's practically the first thing out of his mouth when talking to a new customer. And one of his employees who specializes in restaurant and entertainment business keeps a bag of samples with him and is breathing new life to traditional, sometimes boring, logos.
I used to frown on sales reps bringing customers in for tours as it is disruptive. I have reversed that decision and welcome qualified visitors. When they see the pre-cure/post cure it's always a slam dunk. It's like voodoo magic to them. When I left here ten years ago my replacement almost immediately began to steer away from discharge with the exception of the Resort line. Now we offer it to everyone.
The fact is that; although we see this as being popular on these boards, good quality discharge printers are in the vast minority so those of you getting started have a lot to gain here. Keep up the good work everyone.
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Ok here's mine. Not 100% DC red on yellow print but a halftone mix as the artwork didn't have a strong orange in the middle, just a smooth blend. Camera really sucks, it's a really good red
(http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-TadvQVUO9rU/UTpmRI_X81I/AAAAAAAACTM/XPhW3dvdNZ8/s866/vt_english.jpg)
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It's like voodoo magic to them.
It is voodoo magic.