 Re: Full Color, 4 Color, 6 Color, Seps, halftones oh my!
lincoln 21, u are not alone!
i am also having problems doing process printing.
previously i have managed to do 4-5 colour screens like single spot colours but when i recently tried process colours , it seems like a whole different dish all together.
weird (third colours) came out, single cmy colours showed through when my graphic didn't have those colours, moire patterns showing. its crazy. i went to my screenprint supply shop and they told me that i had to do trial and error for the image to appear, mixing the colours.
he told me that cos one of my test prints the grey tone turned out to be too cyan, he said replace it with grey process paint. does it work this way?!
(in this case i was trying to create the colour grey with process waterbased paint and at 40 dpi using a 48t mesh, instead it came out all colourful with yellow showing, purple as wel as cyan... )
could it be a misregistration problem such that i have to align DOT FOR DOT, such that the paints will magically create the colour, and any misalignment will "rainbow" the image.
i read a little about GCR (grey component replacement ) but that was for desktop publishing , does it work for screen printing?
sorry for so many rambling questions,
gerald |