Under base on black shirts
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Under base on black shirts
I have been in graphic designs for over 25 years but am new to screen printing. When printing on a black shirt do you have to do a white under base first or can you hit flash hit the color you are printing? For example printing gold waterbased on a black shirt.
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Re: Under base on black shirts
If you're looking for that soft hand feel of the water based print then you would want to ideally do a discharge white under base and print the color on top of that. If you do a standard white under base or print/flash/print it is likely that the print will be built up in a heavy ink layer not being as soft as water based inks can be. The more ink you print, the heavier the print will feel. Even water based inks can feel stiff and rigid if you print a ton of ink in printing them.
With plastisol inks we can use a high opacity ink and do the print/flash/print since the printed ink feel thicker anyway. So with water based you can under base normally as with plastisol but the best under base would be the discharge base or discharge white perhaps.
Does that make any sense?
With plastisol inks we can use a high opacity ink and do the print/flash/print since the printed ink feel thicker anyway. So with water based you can under base normally as with plastisol but the best under base would be the discharge base or discharge white perhaps.
Does that make any sense?
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Re: Under base on black shirts
That makes perfect sense. Thank you for the reply and thank you for the videos you post. I have learned a lot from watching your videos.
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Re: Under base on black shirts
You're very welcome.
That's good to hear that you're learning from my video work. Glad I can help out through my videos and forum
Thanks for watching my videos! I appreciate your support.
That's good to hear that you're learning from my video work. Glad I can help out through my videos and forum
Thanks for watching my videos! I appreciate your support.
Jonathan Monaco
Catspit Productions, LLC
Learn how to screen print tee shirts!
http://catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/CatspitProductions
Catspit Productions, LLC
Learn how to screen print tee shirts!
http://catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/CatspitProductions