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Offline ZooCity

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Re: Discharge Black?
« Reply #30 on: February 11, 2013, 11:26:46 PM »
What eb said.

I did a 6 color yesterday and after reading all these threads about zombie skin and what not was paying closer attention to what the buildup was doing.  Seems like it does very well, better than plastisol until you get to around color 4 and, by then, there is enough build up to create a suction effect and impact the vibrancy of the first color down.  I was double stroking the first color to compensate and that worked fine.  Still no zombie skin and nothing outside of normal buildup. No dry-in, no issues whatsoever really.  And, once again, I used reactivated DC ink that I mixed from stuff that was run up to a month ago.  Breakin' the law. 

I do see where a half flash would come into play though.  I messed around with that a little in setup and found that you can pretty easily use a quartz flash to flash off some moisture without starting the discharge process at all so it would presumably be safe to do on press. 

Getting "stepped on" can be a biatch with big open areas of spot color as in the job I was describing above but a very good thing for sim pro with this ink.  The last 6co DC sim pro I did, was one of those prints I'm actually proud of and happy with except I really wished I had one more screen, even a blank one to step on the black and help blend the dots on the black, which was last down. 


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Re: Discharge Black?
« Reply #31 on: February 11, 2013, 11:44:48 PM »
I think I get "stepped on" now. I don't think I've seen that term before. (Odd, that.)

I dont want to hijack this thread, but I don't get any Zombie Skin until maybe 100 pieces, 4 or more colors. (Give or take) Then larger areas of spot color from earlier screens picked-up are the problem...on later screens. It forms the skin and transfers back in to the fresh ink deposit, on maybe screens 4 or 5.

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Re: Discharge Black?
« Reply #32 on: February 12, 2013, 01:30:36 AM »
Oh, that doesn't sound as bad.  This run I referred to above was abt 100 I think and, sure, I would have probably stopped to wipe down if there were more in the run. Similar deal with plastisol typically. I'm ok at running WOW, not great or even good at it, always working on doing better.  Until then it's flash or wipe down as needed and hey even if you are just ok at it, it's still better than flashing every color.

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Re: Discharge Black?
« Reply #33 on: February 12, 2013, 07:31:30 AM »
Hers a sim process B&W with gray midtones. The grayrs are activated 3% and the black 0%

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Re: Discharge Black?
« Reply #34 on: February 12, 2013, 08:09:26 AM »
Tony, how many screens did that shirt require?

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Re: Discharge Black?
« Reply #35 on: February 12, 2013, 08:27:28 AM »
Hmmm that was about 9 ys ago but it was 4 or 5 no flash. The customer sent the album covers at different res so it was challenging but the actual shirt is 100% sharper in person if anyone wants to stop by and see/feel it.