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Old January 12th, 2008 Jan 12, 2008 7:15:19 PM -   #1 (permalink)
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would this image be a good candidate for silk screen? could you give me a rough estimate as to how much it would cost on black and on white?

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Old January 20th, 2008 Jan 20, 2008 8:10:25 PM -   #2 (permalink)
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Default Re: silk screen?

probably DTG or heat press would be better, as the picture is hand drawn. or "blurry" for a lack of a better word.
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Old January 20th, 2008 Jan 20, 2008 9:23:44 PM -   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: silk screen?

It would be easy to screen-print, cheaper too. 2 color on whites, and you need to be more descriptive for the dark shirt. Do you want a white to print? how exactly will it look on darks?

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Default Re: silk screen?

Yep, agreed. It's an easy screen print. You could even do that with just 2 colors.
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Question Re: silk screen?

Matt, Phillip, that would be haltone printing, right? The image doesn't look like 2 solid spot colors, more like some gradients involved in the 2 dominant colors. Am i right?
 
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Matt, Phillip, that would be haltone printing, right? The image doesn't look like 2 solid spot colors, more like some gradients involved in the 2 dominant colors. Am i right?
yeah to achieve the gradients you would need to print using halftones...
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Default Re: would this image work silk screen printing?

My guess would have been that the gradient would not be easily represented with halftones due to the fine resolution in the design.

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Default Re: would this image work silk screen printing?

Definately a halftone image. Just because you change a photo to an apparent single colour hue in Photoshop or whatever program you're using doesn't mean it will screen print like that. I dont think atleast. The font looks like its comprised of 2 colours also. There are varying shades with the black tree thing to the left of the image.
Im not massively clued up on the screenprinting process, but i reckon the pink photo would have to be seperated into halftones (filter in photoshop?) and the levels would have to be increased on the black image to get a solid positive when creating your acetate. Um and obviously all the differnet colours would have to be seperated into layers. Or maybe you just merge the group of images you have there and halftone the lot and use a 4 colour cmyk screenprint. Im not entirely sure mate, maybe my apparent ignorance will stir some expert into giving you greater insight.
 
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