Author Topic: TIME SENSITIVE: HELP!!!! WHITE IS A DIFFERENT BREED!!!  (Read 1986 times)

Offline Frog

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Re: TIME SENSITIVE: HELP!!!! WHITE IS A DIFFERENT BREED!!!
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2013, 07:24:27 PM »
Homer is going in the same direction as I wanted to go. Are these indeed WOW inks? I don't use much Rutland in colors, but when I just looked at their product line it seemed that all of their RFU inks were High Opacity. Is that the case? Did you base them down at all?
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Re: TIME SENSITIVE: HELP!!!! WHITE IS A DIFFERENT BREED!!!
« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2013, 07:32:45 PM »
Weird, the forum info shows  me as the last poster (after Homer), but my post is not displaying, at least not to me.

I asked if Rutland even makes a WOW  RFU ink, or if they are all High Opacity and need to be modified.
« Last Edit: February 18, 2013, 07:34:52 PM by Frog »
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Re: TIME SENSITIVE: HELP!!!! WHITE IS A DIFFERENT BREED!!!
« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2013, 07:34:45 PM »
Really weird Andy, I noticed that as well. Both of your responses show in the "post reply" page though.

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Re: TIME SENSITIVE: HELP!!!! WHITE IS A DIFFERENT BREED!!!
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2013, 09:21:58 AM »
The Rutland I believe is a High Opacity - part of the problem yes. I cut it probably a good 30% with One Stroke's plasitsol base - to the point it started to change shade a bit, still super sticky.

The others are certainly not formulated to be WoW, but the cutting THEM ALL with base (minimum 10%) helped them to get close enough.

What is RFU?

All our squeegees are 70 duro from different manufacturers, so real duro unknown. Edges not new, but not too badly worn either, most maybe 6 months old, we rotate about 15-18 squeegees.

We currently don't have any mesh higher than a 166.

undercutting/untrapping the edges of the art - is that a shortcut that with everything in a perfect world shouldn't need done? Or do really talented printers still do that? It seems like a potentially hard to keep track of/measure variable (though I can see it could be pretty damn effective too)

What's is the print order (if all else were in the right setup) of ink colors? Dark to light? Light to dark? Why? Is it different printing on a light shirt versus an underbase? Different on a dark shirt?
What's the first thing that will change that order for you? the art design? a particular ink color?

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Re: TIME SENSITIVE: HELP!!!! WHITE IS A DIFFERENT BREED!!!
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2013, 09:36:15 AM »
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