6 colour T shirt print, index separation
This T shirt design does not appear to contain a great number of colours, but we found it required six colours to make the job work well. We used index separations at 200dpi and took a very long time playing around with the palette of colours before it came right, we printed the T shirts with a combination of clear waterbased and opaque waterbased inks.
Setting the job up on the hopkins handpress allowed us to change the sequence in which the colours were printed. It is always interesting to try different colour sequences when printing index separations with waterbased inks.
200dpi is a bit of a challenge printing T shirts manually in six colours using waterbased inks, but it does allow for some experimentation. We are very pleased with the choices water based inks are affording us.
What is the hopkins handpress?
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You should remember the hopkins, you cleaned all the parts of it before it was reassembled this summer, it is a t shirt printing machine, a carousel. It is good to know you were paying attention this summer.
Ah yeh, I remember cleaning it. The doctor says the skin on my hands will never return to normal saturation.
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Was that your doctor or your nail technician, you should be pleased with your newly aquired scarred and gnarly working class hands.
I’ll remember to be more grateful next time the blisters burst.
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Really like the t-shirt design (and the exchange of comments between royzy and Steve). What/ who was design for?
What brand of ink you use for printing t-shirts with index separation?
De Biasi
We use Grafco. We are pleased with the results.
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