Publishing On The Dark Side: Four-Color Or Simulated Process? - 0 views

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  #1 Summers Mattingly on 27 May 13

   

  Printing a full color image on a black shirt is one of the toughest jobs a screen printer people. Regular four-color process uses clear inks: Cyan (sky blue), Magenta (warm pink), Yellow and Black) which print in various rates, mixing together to create a wide selection of colors. While this method operates beautifully on a white shirt, the outcomes can be disappointing on tops, requiring a underbase and multiple passes of colors finding yourself with muddy color and a solid ink layer. While good four-color process can be carried out on a dark shirt, to do so requires a great deal of experimentation, time, and tweaking throughout the print run. But there is still another solution to achieve similar results much more quickly.
  
  Simulated approach uses opaque inks and in more than just four colors, frequently between six and nine (often White, Red, Yellow, Green, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Grey, and Purple). Simulated process colors usually are produced wet-on-wet, with several sensations (a drying process whilst the shirt continues to be on the press). As an example, to make a flesh tone simulated approach could make use of a combination of bronze, perhaps white and opaque yellow. The black background becomes a non-issue (or at the very least aladdin coffee mug website not as of one), considering that the colors are opaque. And if individual, specific colors are expected (for example a shade of red for a business logo) they may be mixed to specification and independently published.
  
  Why would you wish to use four-color process at all? It is probably the most appropriate model of full color reproduction, when done properly and correctly. And for retailers with smaller presses with fewer heads available, the numerous colors required for simulated approach may not be possible at all. Also for simple, nuanced art with minor changes in tone, including pastels, the vivid, strong colors of simulated process do not work very well.
  
  The results can be remarkable and are worth the time and effort involved regardless of which kind of printing you use, while display printing images on dark tops might be difficult.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Printing a full color image on a black shirt is one of the toughest jobs a screen printer people. Regular four-color process uses clear inks: Cyan (sky blue), Magenta (warm pink), Yellow and Black) which print in various rates, mixing together to create a wide selection of colors. While this method operates beautifully on a white shirt, the outcomes can be disappointing on tops, requiring a underbase and multiple passes of colors finding yourself with muddy color and a solid ink layer. While good four-color process can be carried out on a dark shirt, to do so requires a great deal of experimentation, time, and tweaking throughout the print run. But there is still another solution to achieve similar results much more quickly. <br /> <br /> Simulated approach uses opaque inks and in more than just four colors, frequently between six and nine (often White, Red, Yellow, Green, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Grey, and Purple). Simulated process colors usually are produced wet-on-wet, with several sensations (a drying process whilst the shirt continues to be on the press). As an example, to make a flesh tone simulated approach could make use of a combination of bronze, perhaps white and opaque yellow. The black background becomes a non-issue (or at the very least <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mycustommugs.com/">aladdin coffee mug website</a> not as of one), considering that the colors are opaque. And if individual, specific colors are expected (for example a shade of red for a business logo) they may be mixed to specification and independently published. <br /> <br /> Why would you wish to use four-color process at all? It is probably the most appropriate model of full color reproduction, when done properly and correctly. And for retailers with smaller presses with fewer heads available, the numerous colors required for simulated approach may not be possible at all. Also for simple, nuanced art with minor changes in tone, including pastels, the vivid, strong colors of simulated process do not work very well. <br /> <br /> The results can be remarkable and are worth the time and effort involved regardless of which kind of printing you use, while display printing images on dark tops might be difficult.</div>

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