So we had an order where the customer had 8 spot colors of different gray's. He didn't like the test discharging of the original recipes that the software spits out, using blue, too much blue shows in the gray's for his liking. ok, no prob, let's just go old school, use white, and then raise the percentages of black to achieve the gray levels of his liking. We get them spot on perfect. Heres where we screwed up and made a mess. I know Tony P will say, duuuuhhhhh. But this is for someone to "not" make the same mistake. Those 100% white discharge mixes with black added, even with some print gen wetting fluid, what a mess. Wet on wet doesn't work. Figure it just like plastisol white at that point, starts to stick and make too much build up. Ok, clean everything down, re-tape. Start with discharge base, add 25% of the color mixes that we made of each color to the base, activate the base, all 8 gray's, now wet on wet, no problem. Like I said, I'm sure there are a few out there that are going to say, "I told you so", but now we know, and want to pass it on to anyone else so they don't waste valuable time and product =). You never realize how much solid is actually in that discharge white until you start doing what we did last night, woooooooooo what a mess. Good thing I'm bald, I'da been pulling out my hair for sure.
