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Alan - Auto newbie here, manual printer for 15 years. Just got our first auto and switching over to plastisol, after mainly being a wb/dc manual shop. I've been reading everything I can on this forum, and your comments and posts have been super helpful.When describing the issue with the Royal, you say it's more transparent, and unfit for printing over an underbase. One of the things I've never figured out how to do is print a CMYK on a white underbase without flashing every color. Through trial and error, I noticed that the transparent plastisol colors usually look like straight trash when printed on any kind of underbase (plastisol, discharge, or magnaprint killer base, doesn't matter how high of mesh from my experience either). Only way I've gotten CMYK to work on darks is to flash EACH color and wipe the shirt side of EACH screen after EACH print, to clean up all the dot gain / buildup. Obviously not a solution. Is there any work around for printing these transparent colors on an underbase? If you did a plastisol CMYK on a black shirt, are you using more opaque CMYK inks than when printing on a white shirt? Or for "CMYK like" prints on dark shirts, is it simulated process all the way? You rule dude, hope to meet you someday