[Luke T]

I think I counted 11, what colors would you eliminate and/or change?

 

[foot print]

have you thought about process color...? only 4 screens and you won't loose any of the colors in the design.

 

[Luke T]

hehe, yeah that was my first idea but the bossman doesn't want to...he says the colors aren't strong enough in process.

 

[red514]

i would suggest process also. if you have concerns with specific colors (maybe the green?) you can add spot colors as well.
Simulated process or index would be another option but you may have some colors that are off a bit (may need as many as 10 colors for a more accurate reproduction)

 

[foot print]

Luke tell your bossman that if the makes the seps correctly that design will work out perfectly ..plus the customer will save a TON of "change" if they are getting charged per screen.

 

[vil3nr0b]

In response to your question...I would propose putting solid color outfits on the kids. Hopefully this helps.

OTOH: Wow!! This seems like it could turn into a nightmare!!!

 

[Luke T]

Luke tell your bossman that if the makes the seps correctly that design will work out perfectly ..plus the customer will save a TON of "change" if they are getting charged per screen.

I agree but he just won't go for it. We've had some issues with process in the past and I think it left a bad taste in his mouth. He won't do it unless there's just absolutely no other way. I think we've found a way to get it to 7 and looking pretty good using some halftones and switching some colors around.

 

[dlac]

The flesh brown can mix with yellow to make oriental, red and blue make purple, blue and yellow make a great green, yellow and red make orange.. play with it.. flows mix better..
dlac

 

[buttton]

Depending on the size of the print, you can put a couple different colors on one screen if you have enough space between them to hit them with seperate, small squeeges.

 

[Luke T]

Depending on the size of the print, you can put a couple different colors on one screen if you have enough space between them to hit them with seperate, small squeeges.

It's going on an automatic...don't think I would want to do that 400 times!

 

[whimsywhit]

I would take the vector artwork and:
1. change everything that is red to orange. There isn't enough red for anyone to even notice. Maybe even halftone in a little black to make it seem darker than the other oranges.
2. Make the light purple a halftone of the darker purple.
3. Make the light skinned guy in the back just white. Or a like, 5% brown.

So you have:
1. Black
2. Green
3. Royal
4. Purple
5. Orange
6. Brown (using different halftones for the various skin tones)
7. Yellow (I'd even go so far as to try to talk the customer into changing that ONE yellow shirt to a light blue or green so I could use a halftone of another color and get rid of yellow. It's not really adding much to the artwork)

If I personally was doing this artwork, I would print the art in three colors and sell the customer on ordering different colored shirts. Then I could make the outfits whatever color the actual shirt was and totally get rid of the boxy grass thing going on. But that's just me, LOL. I don't have a problem telling them what I think looks best.

 

[Luke T]

Thanks for the input. Yeah, there are definitely things I would have done differently if it was my design. It's a copy of a mural they have in the school so they wanted it to look as close as possible, even if we had to change some colors. Here's what we ended up going with.
1. Red
2. Blue
3. Green
4. Black
5. Chocolate Brown with halftones for the 2 black kids
6. Lighter brown for the hispanic kid with halftones for the white kid
7. Yellow

So hopefully they'll turn out all right, we'll find out today when they go to press!