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Offline ZooCity

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Re: Help Mixing Turquoise Ink.
« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2012, 01:41:49 PM »
Something I do a lot when mixing is to take the backside, not the receiving side, of old film positives or carrier sheet trimmings (a pc of glass would be good too) and use it like palette to test a few different combos are feel out how strong one color to the rest.  Next put a little of the mix on the egde of a clean knife and scrape onto test material to see what it's going to do on your shirt color. Start there and then go to mix and jot down your %s in case you run out of ink mid-run and forgot what you did to mix that color.  Prevents you from mixing a whole quart of ink that looks like baby poo.


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Re: Help Mixing Turquoise Ink.
« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2012, 04:56:28 PM »
we like coated poster board for that, but we also like scrap coroplast, because you can clean it off and use it again...

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Re: Help Mixing Turquoise Ink.
« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2012, 06:07:48 PM »
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone again. The mix came out a little darker than the requested color, but they just picked up the shirts and were more than happy.