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Amateur question - where is the 2nd blue in this print?
No you don't, but it will help. We print all the time wet on wet, you will need statics with good tension though. the stuff that comes out of your shop is top notch. Seriously, the only thing you will gain with newmans is better production. I don't really see your prints improving that much, there isn't much room to move up.The biggest thing with wet on wet is mesh selection. also using the perfect amount of pressure on all heads. that is critical. a print can go from great to really bad if you crank the pressure down on a wet on wet overprint.
it's not an amateur question, i was wondering the same thing.
yeah, you should be able to print wet on wet on most designs. you are killing your production with revolver. we have a 6 color press and maybe once a week we have to run things around twice.i see the light blue now, it took a bit.what meshes are you using for this?
Quote from: mk162 on August 26, 2012, 10:42:31 PMit's not an amateur question, i was wondering the same thing.Me too, looks like the shirt to me. I have White underbase, flash, cool, blue, orange, flash, cool, highlight white as a 4 color, if I had the the dark blue, it would be printed 1st, in front of the underbase white... A very straight ahead job I think, done thousands like it over the years.Steve
yeah, your mesh selection is jacked on that. I would have done what homer and others said, 230's and 305 top or 230's all the way around.
depending on the inks you used and I was really pressed for time and screens - I would possibly entertain the thought of using the light blue as a base or if you discharged it, I would ditch the HW, but not a clear discharge base, maybe a 50/50 mix to achieve some white in there. fifty ways to run it and I bet all would look great.This brings up a thought I had a long time ago. What if we had Dan the Sep man come up with a design. we as printers go ahead with our method of sep'n (in house, send out, whatever) print and trade each other our finished product along with all the details. I bet we could all learn a few new tricks...
Quote from: Sbrem on August 27, 2012, 09:29:47 AMQuote from: mk162 on August 26, 2012, 10:42:31 PMit's not an amateur question, i was wondering the same thing.Me too, looks like the shirt to me. I have White underbase, flash, cool, blue, orange, flash, cool, highlight white as a 4 color, if I had the the dark blue, it would be printed 1st, in front of the underbase white... A very straight ahead job I think, done thousands like it over the years.SteveThe only white on the shirt is the Teeth and the Sharks eyes. Everything else you think is white was light blue. The flash on the pic blew it out. There are 2 blues.Attached is the pre-press artwork.