2STRONG

forgot what its called when you creep the edges in a little for the film that you will be using for your white underbase so it wont show on the edges.I am doing metellac ink on black and i think the black will make it pop more unless i do a few passes of the ink will that work instead of the under base.. im using corel draw x3

 

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Invizzible

Use the Corel help file to navigate to a topic entitled 'trapping'. It will explain how to set your printing options to take advantage of overprinting and auto-spreading.

You can alternately find the setting by clicking (in Corel) <File<Print, navigating to the Separations tab and checking Print Separations and modify the settings in the Advanced tab. If the Advanced box is grayed out and inaccessible, your printer isn't capable.

Not all is lost, tho. If you absolutely must have a white underbase that requires 'choking', I can explain a different method.

 

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2STRONG

choking was the word i was loking for . what is the other option. what is you take on doing multiple passes instead of the underbase.

 

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Invizzible

My take on doing multiple passes instead of using a white underbase is this: If you are using a very opaque ink (for example, Union Ink's Maxopake series) you can get away with printing directly to the shirt without an underbase. You may have to print-flash-print-cure but the end result is comparable, in most cases, to a print that utilized an underbase. If you are using a 'soft' ink or a less opaque ink, you could seriously do three or four print-flash cycles and still not build up to a good bright print.

If you still need to burn two screens and use one as a white underbase:

Let's say your shirt design is the word 'TEXT'. Convert your text to curves (Ctrl-Q) and then apply a contour. In your contour steps dialog set the type of contour to 'Inside' and set the offset to something like .01 to start with (and tweak it based on how much 'choke' you want). After applying the contour, use your object manager to find the contour group. Right click the contour group and select 'Break contour group apart'. Your 'inside contour' now becomes it's own separate curve. When you print your films you'll have your regular image and one slightly 'choked' image to use for your white underbase.

These steps are general and may vary based on your version of Corel. If I didn't explain well enough just hit me up via messenger and I can talk you through it. Hope this helps.

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