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screen printing => 4 Color and Simulated Process Printing => Topic started by: sportsshoppe on April 11, 2011, 12:13:08 PM

Title: Simulated print order???
Post by: sportsshoppe on April 11, 2011, 12:13:08 PM

Just printed out my FIRST simulated process to film and now am wondering if I need to go by print order, light to dark... The colors are blk, grn, soft red, aqua, yellow. I am using QS's to seperate and it is a scanned pic of water color art, so its pretty forgiving... Just want the colors to be right. Thanks

Title: Re: Simulated print order???
Post by: blue moon on April 11, 2011, 12:20:55 PM

Scott,

black last, rest by size of the print, smaller to larger is what we would do.

pierre

Title: Re: Simulated print order???
Post by: sportsshoppe on April 11, 2011, 12:57:53 PM

Thks P I will post pic when complete.... Did u get my e-mail on the design?

Title: Re: Simulated print order???
Post by: blue moon on April 11, 2011, 01:11:53 PM

I'd do yellow, green, red, blue, black.

Yellow will take a little to build up (it will not seem like there is enough of it on the first few shirts, just leave it as is). Red has a tendency to build up too much and become more visible (you might have to dial it down a little as you go).
run at least 10 shirts for the bottoms of the screens to build up and then make any adjustments.

pierre

Title: Re: Simulated print order???
Post by: Artelf2xs on May 19, 2011, 10:26:30 PM

I have not explored Quick Seps in years, However each design I do has it's own rules as to what looks best.

I hand sep most of my work and use the black to tone colors down as the white tints them up. It works best if you put the black early in the print order wet ( No Flash) as the remaining squeegee passes tend to blend the inks together.

Title: Re: Simulated print order???
Post by: screenxpress on May 19, 2011, 11:29:05 PM

I believe you would probably be best suited to print in the order of the QS Channels produced.

Pierre is right on the yellow and red.  Resist the temptation to wipe the backs of the screens.

Title: Re: Simulated print order???
Post by: Dottonedan on May 20, 2011, 11:41:36 AM

Quote from: screenxpress on May 19, 2011, 11:29:05 PM

I believe you would probably be best suited to print in the order of the QS Channels produced.

Pierre is right on the yellow and red.  Resist the temptation to wipe the backs of the screens.

Thats the most accurate statement. You ARE using QS so you should do them in that stock order. Anything else is going to change it up and more than likely, not for the better.  All the other info color sequence and size comes into play (when YOU have control over that and are doing seps yourself).

When doing seps yourself, you can sometimes print Yellow last as out of design necessity but you design your seps to do so.