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screen printing => Ink and Chemicals => Topic started by: jason-23 on June 30, 2011, 10:15:54 PM

Title: i have a little problem...
Post by: jason-23 on June 30, 2011, 10:15:54 PM

i need to try and eyeball mix some very specific pms colors and have no idea how to do i, for a very short run for a great customer. I know i should have ordered it  but  no time for that now, any help would be great. thanks in advance.

Title: Re: i have a little problem...
Post by: blue moon on June 30, 2011, 10:19:32 PM

what kind of inks and what colors do you have available?
do you have a scale?
even more importantly, do you have a pantone chart? It is not happening without it.

I've walked ppl through it over the phone before, I can try to help . . .

Title: Re: i have a little problem...
Post by: jason-23 on June 30, 2011, 10:32:25 PM

yep i thought you were going to ask for special crap, nope non of that stuff. i do have basic colors, black, white, blues, orange,red, pink, lite green, kelly green and some others all one stroke general purpose stuff. the color i need to get close to is 4685,628,715,and 4685. so i guess im screwed but i did warn the customer of this problem and the time crunch.

Title: Re: i have a little problem...
Post by: Frog on June 30, 2011, 11:00:23 PM

With the usual disclaimers of monitors calibration and all that, here is a pantone chart (http://www.teknipak.com/PrintingColorsChart_PANTONE.pdf)

Title: Re: i have a little problem...
Post by: Fresh Baked Printing on June 30, 2011, 11:20:38 PM

Does One Stroke have a program like Union inks does? It tells what inks/quantity to mix to yield the color.

(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7634/inkmix.jpg)

Title: Re: i have a little problem...
Post by: jason-23 on July 01, 2011, 12:50:33 AM

i eyeballed it...screw it! ;D