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creative underbasing for dark shirts

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Artelf2xs:
I put this is art because the  production art needs to be developed for this idea.

Traditionally screen printers use White ink to under-base colors on black and dark shirts. Here I show you that thinking out side the box creatively can both have great effect and save your client money on his product.

We under-base the films to keep them from toning down, or taking on the value of the shirt with out printing, flash curing and printing again.

Using this knowledge and a limited under-base we can get different values of color per screen. Also using a light color not White can really add color without additional set ups.

Here is one I just did and the clients budget only allowed for two colors on black. White really is not a color and it seemed yellow and the resulting tertiary orange would be more colorful.

Additionally I wrote a blog on the subject last year using a Blue under-base. It's accompanied with actual photos of the print on press as it progresses.. you can view it here...
http://artelf2xs.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/under-basing-colored-inks-on-dark-garments-does-it-have-to-be-white/

Northland:
Thats' good info... yellow is the one color that I'm surprised to hear works as an underbase.
I dread printing yellow on BLACK (Wilflex MX or Union Mixo inks).... just can't seem to get good opacity without tripple hitting.

Evo:
That design screams "discharge!!"

Artelf2xs:
that would be three color :-P

inkman996:
That blog post was awesome I cannot believe how good that shirt looks using a blue underbase!

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