QCM WOW inks / shirt pics

[brandon]

So here are some not the best cell phone pics of a shirt we did today. Pretty low res art but 25 minutes in Photoshop cleaning and seping it out worked ok. Just seems lately there has been a lot of WOW and QCM talk on here. Since for plastisol we are a QCM shop here is a job we had up and running in about 35/40 min with several test prints and photos to client

Underbase QCM Creamy Glacier unmodified 230

flash

all of the below is WOW, one stroke per screen.

QCM WOW Sky Blue unmodified 230
QCM WOW Yellow unmodified 230
QCM WOW Red unmodified 280
QCM pantone brown (can't remember number) 280
QCM pantone green (can't remember number) 280
QCM WOW Black slightly halftoned base 355
Matsui Water Base Metallic Binder with yellow pantone of our choice 156

8 screens total and yes I would change a few things next time. Would put the Metallic WB on a 110 or 83, maybe a lower mesh on the Sky Blue to make it pop more, and if the run does go over 500 I would use halftone base in the inks. It seems the number for us is around 400/500 prints doing WOW with QCM's before reaching for a bit of halftone base sometimes. But I could be wrong. Our head press operator was at the doctors so I got to jump on the press real quick. Was fun as it has been a few months! And we don't always put the black last. Just on this print I had to bring out some of the faces and whatnot. Oh, and the pics really don't show the Metallic WB Gold. Reason we went WB is so it would be as smooth as the rest of the print - almost nothing but shirt. Not a fan of plastisol metallics.

And if anyone is curious it is for Cianide, an old school Chicago Death Metal band from a long, long time ago. Made a couple hundred shirts for an LP reissue for their record label.

[brandon]

Crap, here is the other photo!

[ZooCity]

Damn fine lookin' print there. 

[RICK STEFANICK]

nice work   

[Printwizard]

Brandon, are you printing the water base gold over the plastisol under base?.  How is the adhesion and washing if so.  I've never mixed the inks, but I also saw Alan post on YouTube plastisol over discharge base. Am curious....

[brandon]

Brandon, are you printing the water base gold over the plastisol under base?.  How is the adhesion and washing if so.  I've never mixed the inks, but I also saw Alan post on YouTube plastisol over discharge base. Am curious....

Yeah, but over a 230 halftone and only just tiny text and a small border/frame around the painting. With the underbase being on a 230 and the Metallic WB Gold on a 110 it is basically just Gold WB with a little bit of white here and there underneath. I would not recommend doing a huge plastisol print with WB on top. We have done discharge under plastisol but for better results we just run whatever colors/pantones we need for discharge. Just make sure you have the right garments. If you are going to discharge one ink might as well do the entire job is the way we look at it.

[T Shirt Farmer]

Very nice print there Brandon. What line halftone? 10 color press?

[brandon]

Thanks. 45 and yes, a 10 color Sportsman E. Underbase, flash, open head on three then WOW 4 - 10. The art was not the best to work with. I opened the file and went, "....ewwwww."