how would this work?

[cleveprint]

hey all. customer came to me with this art. i could probably get away with 6 spot colors. but their artwork is setup where colors are overlapping to create some of the other colors. id love to give it a shot, but i have no idea where to start with something like that. i would assume transparent inks or process? going on black too.

[tonypep]

I would test the DC colors using the jig below. If they blended just right then you could print:
DC white w/base
no flash
DC yellow
DC pink
DC red to crush
saves a couple of screens, if not straight dc 6 colors

[jvanick]

that's almost like something we printed a few months back:



ran it as a DC underbase, with standard process cmyk inks on top.

Customer was happy with the result.

[cleveprint]

very cool. i think ill be coming in this weekend to play around. id like to print it with something other than plastisol. DC seems like its the way to go.

[blue moon]

two thoughts . . .

if you are going to print it as sim process you should send it out and have a pro separate it. this would show you how it's done so you can do it next time. Also if printing sim, you might have a problem hitting those colors right on. If they have to match exactly, you might be better off going with spot colors.

pierre

[myseps]

You should be able to use the "pathfinder" tool in illustrator to split the overlapping colors into separate spot elements.

[cleveprint]

well did some farting around with this last night after hours. i had some union plasticharge laying around and decided to give this a go (disregard awful registration and cell phone pics. just threw it in to play around). i printed this 3 colors, yellow and two pinks. i definitely got a cool effect... i have to play around with my final colors, but overall i think it turned out pretty cool. i got the color blending i was hoping for. my customer is not too specific with pms matches, so i have a little wiggle room.

[tonypep]

Very good for first try. Helps if the customer isn't dead set on PMSs