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screen printing => 4 Color and Simulated Process Printing => Topic started by: sportsshoppe on April 15, 2016, 01:48:01 PM

Title: greens are lime green in 4CP
Post by: sportsshoppe on April 15, 2016, 01:48:01 PM

My darker greens seem to be more lime green in my print, could it be that the Cyan needs to be a little darker? Thanks

Title: Re: greens are lime green in 4CP
Post by: mimosatexas on April 15, 2016, 02:36:29 PM

bump up your cyan in those areas, and maybe knock back the yellow a bit.  what inks are you using?  What mesh count?  On a base or on a white shirt?

Title: Re: greens are lime green in 4CP
Post by: Sbrem on April 15, 2016, 02:44:08 PM

Quote from: sportsshoppe on April 15, 2016, 01:48:01 PM

My darker greens seem to be more lime green in my print, could it be that the Cyan needs to be a little darker? Thanks

Your intuition is correct, mimo has it...

Steve

Title: Re: greens are lime green in 4CP
Post by: tonypep on April 15, 2016, 02:55:38 PM

Correct. Many use the bandaid of say basing back the process yellow but that will cause problem as most won't remember what is based back and what is 100% causing trouble for future jobs

Title: Re: greens are lime green in 4CP
Post by: blue moon on April 15, 2016, 05:07:40 PM

you are probably missing black ink. PMS 342 is 100%C, 66%Y and 41% black. Without the black it is kind of limey!

pierre

Title: Re: greens are lime green in 4CP
Post by: sportsshoppe on April 21, 2016, 06:48:44 PM

Sorry for not getting back sooner to those who replied. It was a tad bit too much yellow and I bumped the  cyan up and it worked out. It was a painting so it was really forgiving on line up and the colors came out really nice. Bottom line is the customer loved it. Thanks