[surber05]

Have a job that has a black silhouette with white text 18 pt. can I print the black solid and then white or should I knock out the white area.

 

[ole Jobe]

You will not get good coverage of the white on black. Block out the black, print the white first with a little trap. God Bless.

 

[surber05]

I would not be able to do a trap the white text runs on and off the black.

 

[sben763]

Don't create a trap just do butt registration or run an under base then black and a highlight white. If I understand you correctly It is hard to cover black with white can be done but tales a big build of ink

A picture or an example would help

 

[surber05]

Here is the artwork shirt is blue.

 

[ole Jobe]

I would do a .5 pt outline on the white, print the black film, take the outline off and print the white file. You'll have to tape off or block out all that outline all over, but it does give you a little trap.

 

[sben763]

I would knock out the black, print the white first,flash then the black. butt registration if you press holds good registration. Unless it just a few shirts cause registering will take some time. Then I would add a .075 to a .05 pt stroke on the white.the black would slightly over print.

 

[kal6150]

Don't want to overstep here, but we do heat transfer, embroidery and DTG. Could you mix media and vinyl cut the silhouette and then screen your text. One less screen, registration is easy , no blocking. Not sure on your qty and hope I'm not offending.

 

[sben763]

Don't think you can screen print over vinyl although I may try this might be worth knowing for special effects. Vinyl is much more expensive. Even with the cost of screen unless it less than 4 shirts.

 

[hazeremover]

Don't over think this. White text reversed out of the black artwork. Butt registration. Black down first. 110-180M. Flash. White next. 110M. Print, flash, print depending upon white used. If your screens are good, straight and mesh tension is drumhead tight, with proper off contact, this should print up nice and crispy with a decent hand.

 

[DKgrafix]

When I was told this few months ago, I did not believe it. Tried, and worked like a charm.

Print your seps with no traps. Expose.
Set it up so you print black first. Print black, flash, print white, flash, print white again and into the dryer.

Your white will gain (grow) a bit and that will trap the black underneath (black has to have letters knocked out). This way you will not have those weird edges on the lettering when black is printed over the trapped white.

Good luck

 

[TYGERON]

Knock out the White. Butt the seps. Print the Black first. Then the White with a fill stroke, nice even squeegee single pass. Slightly reduced HO White or even try HD.

The Black layer shouldn't be heavy enough to lose definition where the White prints.

 

[ssk]

Would it make sense to create a white underbase of the silhouette and combine it with the white text as one screen, then print the black over that with the text knocked out?

 

[DKgrafix]

Would it make sense to create a white underbase of the silhouette and combine it with the white text as one screen, then print the black over that with the text knocked out?

No need. You are just wasting ink and making it thicker that it should be.