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screen printing => Waterbase and Discharge => Topic started by: tonypep on January 18, 2013, 11:23:17 AM
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Who knew? Anyone care to guess how it was done?
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I'll take a shot.
Underbase Wilflex Bright tiger 110, PFP.
Each top color printed on top through a 110 with a flash between each color.
Am I close? ;)
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Not to get all Alex Trebek on you but..........sorry noooo
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Sericol discharge through a really high mesh, like 305, maybe 230
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discharge on 50/50 insideout
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I'll take a shot.
Underbase Wilflex Bright tiger 110, PFP.
Each top color printed on top through a 110 with a flash between each color.
Am I close? ;)
He wasn't asking how YOU would do it. ;D
I was thinking discharging a black 50/50.
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Jason got it. 100% cotton though
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Cool. so you flipped the tee inside out, and discharged the print from the inside?
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Yes. The art is inversed of course. And yes we charge a premium for this
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Do you tell your clients to wash the shirt first?
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Yes we recommend that they do
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WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER! MAN IM HUNGRY
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man, I was really close. maybe next time
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Yes. The art is inversed of course. And yes we charge a premium for this
same here.. it's an extra labor step to flip it in then out. I've had to do some sample printing of this technique, hard to do on a manual as the pressure has to penetrate beyond 50% of the fiber to achieve the desired effect.
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At first I thought a distress pattern, then noticed it was from Tony, and immediately figured discharge. Printing on the inside is pretty cool, good catch Jason. I seem to remember (after the fact of course) that this technique was mentioned maybe a few weeks ago... Looks very fashionable, not that I'd know.
Steve
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Should a guy use a reducer or maybe a little water to get that to saturate better? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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I'm wondering if this is something client supplied, in terms of artwork? or if this something your design team came up with for a client?
I'd love to do something like this, but i don't think we'd ever have a client supply art for a project like this.
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Hey, I can print like that on plastisol all day... this is what a "good" underbase looked like when I first started. Woops! :)
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So instead of turning the shirt inside out then back, how about doing a distressed discharge base then a solid water base top color without discharge. Thoughts?
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Cool effect, but why inside out the shirts? Couldn't you just make the text look like that with a distress filter and print it normally and get the same effect?
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I think it's pretty darn cool. As the shirt wears over time the print probably gets brighter!?
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My old shop we dis this a lot. Pain in the butt. Every shirt is a lil different and original. You def want to not max out any frames. If anything run a bigger size frame to ensure your in the "sweet spot " of your screens. If not you'll notice a big difference on the underside even if the print looks good.
Also document everything to repeat it later. Got myself into binds before when I didn't write settings down.