"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
The customer says the flo blue on the backs of the shirts looks teal, and is swearing it's a different ink color, the fronts look right, flo blue. I'm guessing dye migration, but I haven't seen the shirts yet.
This is how we set it up, black plastisol 150s, wilflex polywhite 150S underbase, flash, 110/71 same underbase polywhite, flash, rutland m2 flo blue 150s, double stroke, flash, rutland m2 flo orange double stroke. Initially we wanted to run underbase grey in the first screen but were seeing a slight grey edge from the base which was affecting the design.
We ran 3 flashes because the flo inks needed a double stroke to look bright so WOW would have been a smearing nightmare.
another point is the orange did not change, since underbased the same way, it should have shown migration as well, unless a flo yellow dye doesn't affect that color in the same way it does a blue.
One good thing is you have some of the actual shirts to test on. Print some of your poly white on there and try to make it bleed see what happens, scrape a little of the blue on the white as well and bake it. The thing is i cannot see a lighter color shirt bleeding and making a darker color ink lighter in reverse sure but making a blue lighter? I think it boils down to the white ink itself compromising the blue somehow, test away.
Quote from: Inkman996 on May 05, 2011, 09:16:47 AMOne good thing is you have some of the actual shirts to test on. Print some of your poly white on there and try to make it bleed see what happens, scrape a little of the blue on the white as well and bake it. The thing is i cannot see a lighter color shirt bleeding and making a darker color ink lighter in reverse sure but making a blue lighter? I think it boils down to the white ink itself compromising the blue somehow, test away.You know what, Thats a great point. Smart. In light of that, it just goes to show that while most of us are well seasoned at this business, we still don't always know the answer to everyone question. It's so great to get various points of view and makes these discussions invaluable.Smart indeed. If you really want to get to the bottom of this recreate the entire job with the exact specs.I thank you all for your educated feedback and participation.