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Offline Underbase37

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Funny story: Work your magic
« on: March 11, 2014, 12:26:10 AM »
We have been doing a lot of testing & coming up with ink formulas lately, getting a good handle on things.

 My screen guy ( who happens to be the original printer in the shop & a bit of a skeptic when comes to WB & DC ) comes out into the shop & asks what mesh I want for a job, as I take a quick look at the art he laughs and says "or you could just work your magic" Sooo.. I take that as a dare. I came up with the first PMS# quick, the other one took a bit of fiddling with, but I got it.

Now to press, 2 screen not much registration bam, bam reddy to go in no time, pint & on to sleeve. 1 screen, put on sleeve pallets & go, no p-f-p:D.

I know color might look a bit off in photo but in person it is spot on or within 1%. After wash kept color like a champ, very little color pull-back. Look & feel great.

PMS#124
PMS#127

OK so not that funny but it amused me a bit:)

Yes this is a simple 2 color & we have been doing much cooler things lately & some people have been posting much cooler stuff, but thought I would share.

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Re: Funny story: Work your magic
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2014, 01:15:07 AM »
I want one of those shirts. How much?

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Re: Funny story: Work your magic
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2014, 01:26:49 AM »
There for a contract client :)
They are also just a back & sleeve, client does this all the time???
But the client gets what they want::)

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Re: Funny story: Work your magic
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2014, 06:03:40 AM »
Curious as to whether you used formulation guide or eyeballed.

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Re: Funny story: Work your magic
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2014, 09:25:53 AM »
These were done with a color calculator.
  However, when I looked at them I knew some things would be off,  I'd like to think I'm  pretty good with colors. So taking the formulas as a guide, adjusted them to what I thought would work the best using a scale.
  All formulas were documented and saved in a Word document and copied to the art files, then printed out to go with physical artwork.

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Re: Funny story: Work your magic
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2014, 09:28:28 AM »
Used pretty much all the ink & not much waste in the end.

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Re: Funny story: Work your magic
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2014, 09:37:22 AM »
These were done with a color calculator.
  However, when I looked at them I knew some things would be off,  I'd like to think I'm  pretty good with colors. So taking the formulas as a guide, adjusted them to what I thought would work the best using a scale.
  All formulas were documented and saved in a Word document and copied to the art files, then printed out to go with physical artwork.

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Thats exactly how to do it

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Re: Funny story: Work your magic
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2014, 10:02:42 AM »
Thanks Tony, this has been a bit of a lone go as I have some skeptics here.

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