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Plastisol: print in layers or cut out?
Dottonedan:
--- Quote from: inkman996 on January 02, 2024, 12:01:14 PM ---Not sure why its such a hot topic. I honestly just do it old school, I sep everything manually so I can treat every part separately. I almost always just choke the white base but when there is small lines I will instead increase the top color. These details are so small to start with it will not effect the over all art work in any discernible way.
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I feel the same. Basically, only affect the small stuff in a small way on the top colors for the lease amount of change.
3Deep:
Maybe I'm getting old and lazy but this was a really big discussion on such a simple looking print, but sometimes simply can be more of a pain than you thought,
I know I've run into this before.
Dottonedan:
--- Quote from: 3Deep on January 02, 2024, 01:16:22 PM ---Maybe I'm getting old and lazy but this was a really big discussion on such a simple looking print, but sometimes simply can be more of a pain than you thought,
I know I've run into this before.
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I think it just gravitated towards getting deeper like this simply due to all of the subtle nuances of separation it'self that got us down this far. Rabbit hole. LOL. But what are we here for, if not to discuss.
OhNoPrinting:
to finish up:
I hate screen printing - no really, should have just use DTF...
but on a serious note, it was really stressful to print three colors on two locations on a hoodie, including large white areas. I def need to improve my white ink. Maybe reducer, or warming it up or not sure.. but because it was so sticky, printing the top layer was a nightmare (garment moved, uneven surface ...). I already used 2px choke on the white base*.
*I chose to use the choke for the "base" because only the heart element got printed on top and I didn´t need to fiddle with the top layer..
for the bigger print I used 43t mesh, the smaller 43t and 80t.
Biggest problem: too much ink/thick print. movement of the garment, even so I used lots of glue. a couple of times the top black ink seems to bleed, not much but.. :-/ and yeah.. either i got a bit of white or an ugly darker frame: somtimes you loose and sometimes the others win
and smaller front
Rockers:
--- Quote from: blue moon on January 01, 2024, 09:00:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dottonedan on December 28, 2023, 04:49:10 PM ---The accommodations for registration should be applied to your base white only.
No matter what graphic program you are using, you want to "choke" or cut away from the base.
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Very, very strongly DISAGREE with this statement! Changing the underbase wil alter the look of the design. Choking will eliminate very thin lines.Try choking fine text and see whats left…
Underbase should be left alone and the top colors should be expanded to cover the underbase.
Pierre
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Sometimes we do both. Especially if there is fine text. Really depends on the font too. But yes sometimes we choke the base just half of what we normally choke it by and then make up for it by adding some trap to the top colors. But we do this mainly on small text.
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