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Screen printing gradients?

  • 15-10-2008 11:27am
    #1
    Stephen!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭


    Hey!

    My band are getting some tshirts printed up for an upcoming tour. We've spent a goodwhile designing a logo for it and we're really really happy with! Only thing is now, a good section of the tshirt is a gradient going from blue to yellow. The design needs to be in today in order for them to be ready for the tour, but im now not sure if the printer can screen print a gradient like this?

    Does anyone know if you can screen print gradients?
    I was reading on the web about DGT printers, do any of the printers in Ireland have these?
    I was also reading about a thing called the "flood technique" or soemthing, where you mix the two colours in the gradient together on a seperate screen, but that each tshirt will be different?

    Hope someone can help me! :)


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  • #2
    ztoical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,788 ✭✭✭ztoical


    to screen print gradients its one screen with however many number of colours are being used in the gradient. Flooding is when you push the ink across the screen with the squeegee so for a gradient you pour each ink across the bottom of the screen at the various points you want each colour and then flood the screen by lightly pushing all the inks to the top of the screen with the squeegee. Your screen is now flooded and ready to print.

    Each shirt will be slightly different because the inks will slowly start to mix while your printing. The ink is being pushed up and down the screen for each shirt so were the colours are touching the start to mix - most times this looks fine, depending on the skill of the printer, colour choice, size of the image and the number of colours. Two many contrasting colours on a very small image will eventually mix into a big mess.

    You can try printing each colour on a different level but you won't get the nice blend you get with a gradient. Best thing to do is ask the printer your using.


  • #3
    Tom Ghostwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭Tom Ghostwood


    Its known as a split fountain. Tricky enough on tees. Would work on a white tee but any coloured tee will need a flash base. Could ye get the gradient ye want with a halftone?


  • #4
    ztoical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,788 ✭✭✭ztoical


    Tom Ghostwood wrote: »
    Its known as a split fountain. Tricky enough on tees. Would work on a white tee but any coloured tee will need a flash base. Could ye get the gradient ye want with a halftone?

    thread is from October 2008 - OP might have figured it out by now.


  • #5
    Tom Ghostwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭Tom Ghostwood


    Didnt see the date, but the info is still relevant.


  • #6
    netanyahu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭netanyahu


    yeah tbh regardless of the original poster i'm finding this interesting... print nerd 4Eva <3


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