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Well, I made the films last night and shot the screens about an hour ago. For the 4 color process films I exported my Corel file to a Photoshop 200 dpi RGB file with a transparent background. I then used QuikSeps Pro to separate it into CMYK. Just a note here; I absolutely love the way QuikSeps Pro handles CMYK separations as it automatically pulls all the black to the black channel.

I then decided to output the films at 60 lpi (I normally do 55 lpi) and all screens at 22.5 degrees elliptical dots and ripped it with FilmMaker. I was a bit concerned as there where some very small dots (like human hair size and smaller) on the film. I had my screens coated 2/2 with Proclaim/CL (love that emulsion) and shot the first 305 screen on the MSP-3140. The screen came out absolutely beautiful. No dot loss at all. Shot all the rest and got the same beautiful results.

Usually for these events we also have a 1 color back print where they have all their sponsors listed. Since this was a 1 color with only one area of halftones I just sent it to the rip out of Corel using the same LPI and angle as I did on the CMYK from Photoshop.

I did not have time to get any Union Fine White Printer ink in so I am just going to put some extender in some regular white so I can print it through a 305.

I have not set the job up yet but plan on doing it here in the next few hours to see if it prints as good as I think it will.

We shall see.

RUN VIDEO!!! take pictures too!!! of the whole set up...please!!

RUN VIDEO!!! take pictures too!!! of the whole set up...please!!

First print (test). WCMYK all wet on wet. Sand color shirt.

Thrown on a piece of plywood in my shop. Not the best pic but it is all I have right now.



White base


Yellow


Magenta


Cyan


Black

I'm not a 4cp guy and excuse me for saying this, but it looks dull to me. Hopefully it's the camera work.

And am I to understand that you printed wet on wet on top of the wet white? No Flash on white?

I'm not a 4cp guy and excuse me for saying this, but it looks dull to me. Hopefully it's the camera work.

And am I to understand that you printed wet on wet on top of the wet white? No Flash on white?

Part of it is the camera and part of it is that normally the first few prints are light until the other screens start to load.

I also am interested in the no flash white idea and can't wait to see how it goes.
And I would like to know if he has to wipe the screens more with it done the no flash white way.
But if anyone can pull it off it's P.

Went fine. I printed on white, ash, sand, light pink and light blue shirts all wet on wet and they came out great. I have some vid of them but I need to get my vid capture software back up and running.

And, no I did not have to wipe the screens. The trick is the white. I could not get and "Fine White Printer" in time so I based some Rutland Snap white down with some reduce and finesse to where it was the constancy of FWP. Printed all colors on 305 mesh, Proclaim/CL emulsion coated 2/2, 60 lpi, 22.5 degree elliptical dots. Print order was White, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, Black.

The wet on wet over the white only works on light colored shirts. You would need to flash if it was a dark shirt such a navy or black.

We here is a short not so good video produced with the crappy Power Director trial software.

Sorry there is not more but I had to shoot this when things got slow and the weather was turning bad.

<a href="http://boards.screenprintersopen.com/vids/autofest.mp4" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://boards.screenprintersopen.com/vids/autofest.mp4</a>

Preston,

when will you be back? I need to talk to you about some of the car artwork you have...

let me know

thanks

Sam

ps. these look good!!!

I'm around. What do you need to know?