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CMYK print - special inks needed?

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blue moon:

--- Quote from: OhNoPrinting on January 12, 2023, 12:13:29 PM ---thanks. I guess "real" cmyk has to wait a while then. And in the mean time I will go with the great idea of just using colors which come close to cyan, magenta, yellow, black. I will report back how it is going :-)

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the important lesson will be seeing how the inks blend. Your colors will be off and your gamut will be reduced with regular inks, but you can get close enough so it's not cringeworthy.
You can get 4CP inks in quarts. It would not be a lot of money. My suggestion would be to use what you have, do couple of prints with it to get a sense of blending and then move on to simulated process. It is easier to control and is fare more forgiving. Hardly anybody does 4CP any more, it is pretty rare. All the cool images are done with simulated process (with few exceptions).
The hot dog image would look horrible on the shirt if done with 4CP. That type of art does not lend itself to halftones. Your image would be very grainy. I can't explain how bad it would be. Print one as your 4CP learning and you'll understand.
pierre

blue moon:
where are you located?

OhNoPrinting:
Stuck in Hamburg Germany. A bit of nowhere considering screen-printing. (at least it feels like it).

Dottonedan:
So how did the testing go?   Post a picture.

OhNoPrinting:
so.. i did it.

Got myself a tiny amount of process cmyk ink:



Separated for three days, only to go with the very first try (...)

and... BAMM:



came out pretty sweet: (yes, registration is not even close, everything a bit blurry, still: delighted)

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