[gareth1990]

hi can someone please tell me what colours are classed as light and what are dark, your help would be greatly appreciated, im a newbie
thank you

 

[W.E. Productions]

Light colors include : White, yellow, light blue, lime, ash, etc.

Dark colors include: Black, Navy, Red, Royal, Green, Forrest, Charcoal, Hot Pink,etc

Hope this helps!

 

[gareth1990]

thanks that does help a lot, just one more thing what about orange?

 

[Rodney]

thanks that does help a lot, just one more thing what about orange?

Orange would be considered a dark color for sure

 

[mrgalati]

If you're purchasing blanks, typically:

Light: white & natural

Heathers: sport grey & ash

Colors: everything else (including Prepared for Dye)

Typically, for basics (Gildan/Anvil/Hanes) pricing will go (low -> high): L -> H -> C

Sometimes in premium brands and/or organics, white and heather will be the same price as the colors due to higher manufacturing costs.

 

[beanie357]

For pricing, we just check the distributors website.
Is yellow haze priced as a heather, dark, or what the heck is yellow haze?

Ink wise, we find some hi-opacity inks can be used as a one hit on colors you might think you need an underbase on, but they come out just hunky dory.

DTG (Dupont ink) is way pickier about a "what am I" color decision, and we kinda divided the world into 2 categories. But we found 11 colors that print fine at our hi-rez w/o an underbase of the hated white ink.
BTW: All our production number jobs were on the aforementioned colors that work w/o an underbase, so we stopped the white ink. Has not hurt us finacially one iota.

 

[gareth1990]

thanks every one for all your input, really helped