Hi everyone
I have a question I'm printing on gildan black shirts with royal blue ink 110 screen. The ink looks ok before it goes in the drier but when it comes out the blue looks black. I tried putting more ink with print,flash but not much luck.
Use two screens and print a layer of white....flash...print the Royal over the white. You will probably want to put a slight outline (1-2 pts) around the art on the royal screen. This will help you keep registration.
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Re: Printing Royal ink on Black shirt and color changes
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Originally Posted by pioneer
The ink looks ok before it goes in the drier but when it comes out the blue looks black.
Tell us about the ink. From you description, it is not an opaque ink and the black shirt color is coming through the Royal Blue ink.
This is why people have recommended printing another color first, flashing it to 210 F degrees so it has been partially gelled, then printing your Royal ink on top - then curing both colors.
Three operations to achieve one color. This is a curse of printing on darks that you have to explain to your customer why you want to charge the same rate as 3 colors on a light shirt - and the screens should cost more also.
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