[IloveSH]

Hi there,

I am printing a large run of a design (onto black tees) which is about 80% white with only a small amount of colour.

However when the tee goes through the printer on the second pass, the printer reprints white ink over the white underbase, I would like to stop this from happening so as to save time and ink, as the white underbase is a good enough print of the white section of the design.

I am using PrintPro software, I have tried disabling the highlight generator, checked that the white is actually white (it has colour value 255,255,255) but it still printing the white twice!

If anyone can help me with this I would be extremely grateful.

Thanks

L

 

[zoom_monster]

Hi there,

I am printing a large run of a design (onto black tees) which is about 80% white with only a small amount of colour.

However when the tee goes through the printer on the second pass, the printer reprints white ink over the white underbase, I would like to stop this from happening so as to save time and ink, as the white underbase is a good enough print of the white section of the design.

I am using PrintPro software, I have tried disabling the highlight generator, checked that the white is actually white (it has colour value 255,255,255) but it still printing the white twice!

If anyone can help me with this I would be extremely grateful.

Thanks

L

Sounds like you have the "highlight" white turned on. Not familiar with your RIP but I'm sure you can turn it off.

 

[IloveSH]

Hi,

Yeah that's what i thought too, however as far as I can tell (highlight generator is set to 'none' and highlight amount is set to 0%) it is turned off but it is still doing it! It is really starting to annoy me, white ink is not cheap!

L

 

[23spiderman]

print your underbase and the color layer separately, if your RIP allows. sent just the white, then resend the file as if it's on a white shirt so just the color prints.

 

[IloveSH]

Hmm, do you think this is the only way? I tried something like this before and the colours came out wrong, does the software adjust the colours for printing on a white underbase? This seems like an overly complicated method... (thanks though )