What have you printed lately?

[cleveprint]

ClevePrint,

Just ok?   Those look fantastic!  Love that.

thanks!

[SERJ]

Six paints, water base

[Denis Kolar]

Three colors,Magnaprint HB Opaque

Dinamo?

[SERJ]

Yes, the fan club Dinamo Moskow

[Doug S]

Here is one from today. 8 colors including the underbase.  It maxed our 10 color out. 

[UnderPressureSP]

My latest print on gobstopper foil.  4 colors.  3 florescent inks and TW black ink.   Print is 31x22.  Print is for Head For the Hills Fest this weekend.  Art by me. 

[screenxpress]

Anyone got an advil?  NOW I have a headache 

Artwork looks really good, just too busy for these old eyes, lol.

[AntonySharples]

New one we sampled today.

[DannyGruninger]

Elite, what lpi/angle? The blending to me looks fantastic, really really good!

[AntonySharples]

Thanks Danny!  65 lpi, 22.5.  We're getting better!  Plus we got a killer artist now.

[Lizard]

Nice work there Elite.

[Doug S]

Nothing spectacular here but it looks like we will print more simulated this year than ever.  We've already passed the total amount of this type of work then last year. 

[screenxpress]

That looks really really nice.

[Doug S]

Thank you much.  I'll get a chance it looks like this year to really brush up on some simulated process skills.  Every shirt from this customer so far have been pictures of paintings that she has done.  The only thing I really don't like about them so far is that 1st they are on comfort colors and 2nd is that they all require a large underbase area.

[alan802]

Definitely not as cool as 99% of what gets posted here but we've seen a drop in process type prints the last year or so and a large increase in simple spot color work.  These are rather boring but they are all one-hit whites, and the ones with red and yellow ink were also one-hits (no underbase used).





These are just cutouts of test print material so ignore some of the random ink splatter and regi marks.  We try to keep test prints on many jobs in case we need to repeat a job and forgot to write down the inks we used or maybe we ran out of the ink we used and need to match the print.  Jobs that are straight black or white we don't keep but it comes in handy to find old test prints when a problem arises.







This pic shows how I test and analyze different inks or white mixes.  I usually set up a screen on the auto and have the inks I want to test ready to go.  This particular test was for a white ink with 25% base mixed in against the regular white with no additive.  I don't necessarily keep the settings the same when testing something like opacity because the inks perform differently at different pressures and speeds.  It doesn't do much good to test 2 white inks against each other if you keep the settings the same because one ink might sing through the mesh at 30"/sec while the other one won't print past 15"/sec.  A particular ink will appear much more opaque if it will print at higher speeds but if you only tested it at slower speeds where the other ink is relegated to then you're missing out on what an ink can really do.


We try really hard to make our ink deposits as thin as possible, especially on white ink and the use of thin thread mesh makes that possible.  Even though we might be using what is considered a low mesh count, due to thread thickness we're able to print so much faster and with lighter pressure so what may seem way too low to many really doesn't work that way in the real world.  We certainly don't use 110/81's but we use mesh counts that most shops wouldn't ever consider and in my opinion they are missing out.