First "large" multicolor job (5 colors) on white.

[Gilligan]

Here is a shirt we are doing... why not go big right? *sigh*

We have 260 of these to do with about 30 of them that I have to do tomorrow (yes, I'm charging a rush fee).

How would you guys suggest I print this.

I'm thinking Blue and Yellow last due to the ribbon part.  I'm also thinking about making a jig to let the collar fall in so I'm not printing over it... coroplast tapped on the platten?

Oh, and does everyone think I can get away WOW for all 5 colors?

[jasonl]

i printed one just like this but the medal was gold metallic, no problems, no jigs.  worked great.

[Screened Gear]

standard on whites is lightest to darkest and smallest to largest ink area.

 So in this design I would do.

Small area
green
red
black

larger area
blue
yellow (I like to print strokes of an area after the fill)

[Gilligan]

I'm also thinking of a small "trap" (is that the right term?) where the circles touch and on the ribbon so I don't get "blending"... maybe .25 of a point as .5 of a point might be too much?

Antec Legend 6/4 with some rather loose screens.

[Frog]

I'm also thinking of a small "trap" (is that the right term?) where the circles touch and on the ribbon so I don't get "blending"... maybe .25 of a point as .5 of a point might be too much?

Antec Legend 6/4 with some rather loose screens.

You don't want to "trap" a color under another. What you want is a "gutter" between them, especially if your inks aren't great for WOW and/or your screens aren't really high tension

[royster13]

Just better hope the "Trademark Police" do not catch up with you....

[Frog]

At least it's not rings (and not gay) Maybe they'l let it go, even if they see it.
But the commercial use of a near Olympic logo is a little risky. They are some uptight folks!

[Dottonedan]

1 Yellow
2 Green
3 Red
4 Blue
5 Black


I'd not worry about the Olympic committee. They are in Honduras gettings our revised uniforms done. Besides, this is vaguely connected to olympics. The only thing they could say, is to take the word off.  The rings aren't rings at all. They are filled circles with hands. That's the only two possible connections and like I said, I'd take off the word Olympics, But thats just me. I'm not a  lawyers and do no play one on the internet.   I will say tho, they do like going after people.

[Screened Gear]

1 Yellow
2 Green
3 Red
4 Blue
5 Black

Dan can you explain your order? why that order.

[Prosperi-Tees]

How do you guys acheive your gutter? I put a 1/2 pt outline of the shirt color around the colors that touch. Is that right?

[Shawn (EIP)]

manualy I would print the ribbon with a small squeegie , one side then the other , semi pita but better than build up from the collar.

[Gilligan]

Yeah, this customer does like to push the envelope on what they ask us to print and we often have to reel them in a bit.  I felt like you on this Don... they are not rings... just kind of similar... but the word could come off to solidify that.

Gerry, I haven't played with it yet, but I usually do an offset path to trap stuff... which this isn't what I'd be doing here exactly so maybe an outline or a .25 stroke on those touching parts that way it's even.  .25 point stroke makes it .5 where they touch technically (if I'm thinking this through right.)  About to start playing with it in a little while as I'm at the in-laws with too much time to kill and I need to get the films outputted tomorrow AM so I can get printing ASAP!

[Gilligan]

manuly I would print the ribbon with a small squeegie , one side then the other

I kind of thought about that but I'm not sure how I join that in with the rest of the design... that yellow flows right into the "medal".

[Shawn (EIP)]

manuly I would print the ribbon with a small squeegie , one side then the other

I kind of thought about that but I'm not sure how I join that in with the rest of the design... that yellow flows right into the "medal".

True that... I would make a jig then for the collar to sink into, might be worth the extra set up rather than fighting build up unless these are thin fashion shirts.

[Gilligan]

Umm... PC61's

Would a jig made out of corolplast work?