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Old June 11th, 2008 Jun 11, 2008 10:21:15 PM -   #1 (permalink)
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I saw this shirt on GoMedia's website, and I can not for the life of me figure out how it was printed. The description says that 9 screens were used. There is a link to pictures of different stages of production in the article also. I assumed that it was a 9 color simulated process, but the guy that works for the company that printed it says it is not a simulated process. Does anyone have a clue to the printing and separation methods used? It is a very nice print, and seems to utilize advanced printing techniques. The guys from DBH are seem to be keeping quiet about how it was made. I can't say that I blame them.

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Old June 11th, 2008 Jun 11, 2008 10:35:00 PM -   #2 (permalink)
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Default Re: How was this printed?

Looks to me like they just have their screenburning times down to an art, so to speak.

Cant say I see anything other than possibly the worlds most perfect half/quarter/eighthtones..

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Old June 12th, 2008 Jun 12, 2008 1:35:15 PM -   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: How was this printed?

To me it looks like spot colors, a red, 2 blues, yellow, white underbase, green, a purple an orange and probably a highlite white.
 
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Wow! it looks like they printed the shirts twice. It looks like two guys hold an oversized screen that is too wide for the presses side clamps and they print the grey(?) splatters and run it throught the dryer. The shirt is sitting on top of a very large pallet for this. The shirt is then loaded normally on a regular pallet and the other colors are printed. I'd guess it's just spot colors maybe done with channels in photoshop. I like their equipment. I've got the same M&R dryer and I'd like to have that M&R Chameleon press. The two tier carousel is really cool. You can see them printing the shirts here:
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Old June 12th, 2008 Jun 12, 2008 4:51:14 PM -   #5 (permalink)
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no clue... looks cool though

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Default Re: How was this printed?

I bought one of those t-shirts a couple of days ago and its on its way to me, so I'll post up some close up pictures when it gets here.
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It's not a belt printer. Follow the link in my last post above and you can see it was done on a manual press.
 
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amazing. that's grinding
 
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It's not a belt printer. Follow the link in my last post above and you can see it was done on a manual press.
I looked at the link afterwards... shoot me all knowing tshirt guy...lol...
 
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dont want to shoot you just pointing out that they did a cool oversized print on manual equipment.
 
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Old June 14th, 2008 Jun 14, 2008 12:11:55 AM -   #11 (permalink)
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wow.. i would like o know how that was done as well
 
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yeah... i know...lol... i looked at the screenshots afterwards... had a long hot day friday...helping get out out a huge 20k shirt retail order... i'm having a few beers today so all is good... :]
 
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