Author Topic: Lime Green and Hot Pink inks?  (Read 5226 times)

Offline ErinAllenLamb

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Re: Lime Green and Hot Pink inks?
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2011, 10:43:03 AM »
Totally agree with Colin on this one.  A true flourescent is not going to be opaque.  The best way to print is on an underbase.

Wilflex does have a Super Flourescent Green. It is called Super for super opaque, but it will still need to be underbased on a dark garment.

Erin


Offline thinkdesign

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Re: Lime Green and Hot Pink inks?
« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2011, 03:54:37 PM »
I use One Stroke Inks Flo pink. Needs an UB on black but will pop. I even pfpfp on black in a pinch and it looked good.

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Offline Chadwick

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Re: Lime Green and Hot Pink inks?
« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2011, 09:11:31 PM »
Good question!
As mentioned a bunch already,  flouro = transparent.
Lay a heavy % base below, and the overprinted result can suck.
Lay a low % base below and it sucks less, but it's not the look you were after.

*I made a custom 'hot pink', by eye..think 80's hot pink, with some underbase printed below it really jumps off darks.
I did something similar with wilflex's blacklight green as the foundation and added some bright tiger to increase opacity.
Adding white turns it pastel if you go overboard, but there's a fine line in there someplace that seems to work.
I don't have any mixture formula though.

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