you´re right, discharge inks are water base inks and here we have temperatures like 33°C-43°C like 90% of the year, plus an humidity in the weather of 90% or more, so I quited aplying water based inks like on May of this year because I only achieved to print just the firt t shirt before the mesh got clogged, now I know for sure a heat gun will not work well jejeje
I´ve already seen the video you just posted me and another one (now I listened to it very carefully) when you explain printing with flash hit flash one color will work but with 2 or 3 colors you recomended a white under base, there is my problem, I need something like that, cause you did like 2 times the flood and stroke and the white base is fully opaque! thats my problem, my white isn´t opaque enought so I takes me 3 hitting & flashing to obtain that kind of opaque white, at this point it is cool, but adding more colors to that it turns it into a really messy job, I´ll make tomorrow (Monday) a pair of calls to the capital (México, D.F.) to search a really good white underbase, I really need it, and I´m really convinced now about getting a flash cure unit, because I know that kind of work (like the flash gordon printing job) shouldn´t be a nightmare to me like it was. In fact I ruinned one t shirt of those at the heat press when I took the t shirt out of it, it got stuck and It bounced and the heat print flipped over its self and then you know what happend, you know! well We delivered that job last Friday in the afternoon and the bachelor party (thats what the t shirts were for) was that very night so, I didn´t have a replacement t shirt on that size =(, the client took it so calm and we offered 2 t shirts more with the same logo for the next week in replacement, that brings me a question that I´ll make in the next post, cause this already look like a whole newpaper right now! jajaja
I took a look at my pallet a minutes ago, and looks better, like it recovered it´s original flat shape, but took a 40 cms squeegee and put it cross on it and realize it´s not flat at all, I´ll take care of that soon too.
About the C, M, Y, K printing I´m confused, like if you want to print a colored photo you make on Corel draw (for ex) a color separation of the color channels and print 4 positives (C, M, Y, K) ?? right? could you print that job on a manual press? or you also recomend that for only mechanical press? I´m just a rookie, I like this a lot, and I´m just getting over a bussines bankrupty (I´ll tell you eventually more a bout this later) and got very enthusiastic about textile printing, so far I´ve been doing it well economically talking and I don´t feel it like a Job cause I really enjoy it so much, but pinting colored things is like a dream to me, simple because how to center the colors in the press, etc, etc so please tell us about it.
and with the half tones I can´t print them on any print, because for default the places where I got the positives doesn´t print them(halftones) I think is something about the resolution cause the printers are all like brand new models or something, well that´s what I´ve been told about it, I don´t know if maybe there´s a program like a plugin to help with it(pinting the shadows and details like half tones out of any printer)? If so, tell us what programs could they be?
What I do is I come to a place where they especialize in printing films, but don´t do it often cause of the cost, A4= $2 dlls for ex so It turns to be very expensive to achieve a job(talking about 12, 20 or 30 t shirts for ex, when you need 2 or 3 colors)
I´ve tried how to make a photo for example of the Alex Lion of madagascar and tried to turn it into 3 colors in photoshop but I just simply couldn´t, for example another boy is asking me about to printing the bird on fire logo of the "hunger games" movie, I can´t do that, I tried too on Ps to make it only a 3 color image of that and couldn´t neither I tought I could do it with a white base, then yellow then red but I realize I couldn´t(I only have a 3 stations 1 palet table press
for now) so I need to get the jobs done in only 3 meshes for now(I´m waiting to save some extra $$ to buy a 4-1 but still being a table press because of the space), one day I think on past May I did something for the SEAT (cars dealers) here, they were only 8 t shirts for the New 2013 SEAT Ibiza car presentation, and I managed to print 7 colors with only 3 meshes!! jajaja I suffered so much that day! It felt like faceing a bull in a "Pamplonada" in spain every time I got to start printing the next t shirt jajaja, obviously all the colors didn´t "touch" or were nearly close to each other how ever it was difficult to me, how can we show you that kind of work, also any suggestions on printed jobs we can show you, could be of great help.
thanks for your advices Jon!
p.d. If there´s an article on you website that explain some or whole of the themes I exposed, please forgive me for not reading it before I started asking and asking jejejeje
.... enjoy this newspaper and enjoy the rest of the weekend!