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Big thanks to anyone offering great advise
« on: May 30, 2014, 08:34:05 PM »
Just want to say thanks to everyone here for giving such great advise. Had to do a big job for UBS yesterday. Logo on left  side and a dragon on the right chest and on the back. The dragon was supposed to be printed in way that looked like a tint of the original garment color. Remembered Tony`s post from a while back about using discharge inks for that purpose with just 0.1 or 0.2 % activator, came out great. Even on purple and royal blue. :) Cheers.


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Re: Big thanks to anyone offering great advise
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2014, 12:27:36 AM »
That's great...  another tip is to look into the clear tint/gel inks or clear-bases where you can add a color....  but  even the clear-gel inks will create the opposite effect.... on lighter colored garments you can use a 1-screen with clear ink to get a darker-colored area of the shirt-color where the imprint is, and works on other colored garments without changing inks out.... each lighter-colored garment will have the print as a darkened "wet-looking" sort of deeper shade of the garment-color.   I worked with these inks before and you can also use them to create tinted clear-black inks that help with soft shading over colors, etc.     Like discharge on darks but in the opposite sort of way. 
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Re: Big thanks to anyone offering great advise
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2014, 12:22:59 PM »
Or you can combine both techniques within a graphic. We call it Watermark and sometimes it is just a part of the finished shirt. Did a Disney piece once where the park was Watermarked in the background and Mickey and pals in full color