need help on textile printing
Hi!
I need help on textile printing...
One of my client need to print over a garment an image in normal CMYK (color gradient and so on).
He be impressed by a t-shirt made by Sullen called mary - black
http://www.buysullen.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=150
and he want to abtain the same ancient painting effect.
i perfectly know that in garment printing it's really hard to abtain a tipographic resolution, but i have buy that t-shirt and it's not a transfer or a sublimatic printing...
so people.. have an idea? i try with duotone and multichannel image on photoshop, but my textile printer saz me that he can print at last not more than 24 LPI of resolution and he don't use halftone because that made the image bad.
thank you in advance for your help..
happy new year to all..
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Process Color on Black
That shirt (Mary) is most likely printed in CMYK (Process color), over top of a field of white, making it at least a 5-color design.
1. Cyan
2. Magenta
3. Yellow
4. Black
5. White
If your printer can only print at 24 LPI, you need a new printer, and one who specializes in printing CMYK on Black textile. There's plenty of folks who do process on textiles and do it well, but process on black is still very much a special talent.
Why not see if the people who printed the Mary t-shirt could print yours?
Terry Thornhill
e-zign Design Group
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i think you're right...
i talk with some screeenprinter... they saz me that is not a screen print but most likely, is printed with a t-jet printer or similar...
and is not a printer who print 24 lpi, but the screen printing process.. it can't go up that lineature, cause the gradient will lost in the process ( screen printing have a lot of problems ;p )
so thank you..
24 line
Unless I'm misunderstanding, 24 LPI used in screenprinting is extremely low, especially for process colors.
I was a part of the team assembled by Impressions Magazine to help develop process printing on textiles and we were printing 150 Lines or better on black satin jackets. And this was way back in the late 1980s.
Also, I understand that the T-Jet only prints on white or light colored garments. Lining up a white underprint on a T-Jet would be a logistical nightmare.
I looked at some of the other designs at that site with the Mary shirt and these guys obviously know what they are doing. My bet is that it's a straightforward, plastisol screenprint with a screened, white underlayment just under Mary's face and hands. That's why the rest of the print is sort of faded-looking. There's no white under there.
I've also seen metallic silver used as an underlayment, which produces some cool effects with process, but Mary looks like she's sitting on white.
Terry Thornhill
e-zign Design Group