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printing a shadow effect
screenxpress:
Interesting. Necessity is the mother of invention and it's probably all he can afford, but he seems to be getting very low output.
The way he's setup, he could get a lot more out if he changed his setup to something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCqDqX4QrU8
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXe8crLeYd0
cbjamel:
Thats underbasing not over printing to me. Over print is say lt grey overprint with black halftone for darker shade.
But thats me.
zanegun08:
I would do this as a 6 color on white, or 7 on dark with all spot colors, so no halftone shading. It wouldn't be the exact same, but would be all solid colors since I would use a transparent black to do the shading of each lighter color, so the shading color may have a little bit different result than on the computer.
I would print like this on a white
1 - Light Tan (light part of burger bun)
2 - Mid Tan (mid part of burger bun)
3 - Light Pink (hot dog)
4 - Yellow (light part of hot dog)
5 - Brown (dark outlines)
6 - Transparent Black overprinting in the correct areas to make all the dark shading.
This would make the mid tan have the shading on the bun, the shading on the mustard color, shading on the hot dog, and seeds of the bun.
If going on dark you could add a base for 7 colors.
Using transparent colors you can do both highlight colors of a base color by printing a transparent white, or shading of a color by printing transparent black. With plastisol you get a bit of a shiny effect since it is mostly extender base but you can add a matte additive to cut that.
It's a special use case for this style of image but would work excellent for this style of design, and then you don't end up with halftones and solid colors which I don't really like that much, it will visually be all spot colors which I prefer but would rather print 6 colors than 10 for a very similar result, and you would only need to mix 5 colors and a transparent instead of 10.
Dottonedan:
--- Quote --- Go big or go halftones, lol.
--- End quote ---
I’m going to have to use the as my catch phrase! :)
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