Datacolor User to User Support Group.

This question is not on topic but ...

Do the colors shift further if a client puts one of your tee shirts
through a washer and heated dryer?  I'm guessing the color shift in
the ink may be due to the polymer coating on the pigment particles
interacting with the fuseable binder material used to adhear them to
the tee shirt.

Just like waiting for a print out to dry before measuring it would be
interesting to measure the tee shirt after processing onto a tee shirt
and then again after some cycles through the dryer. (though that might
be overkill)

Really what you want to profile a printing process is PrintFIX Pro ...
not Spyder2Pro.  That will help you calibrate the printing process. 
Having your screen calibrated will also help the overall process but
does not allow you to correct shifts in the printing process.

Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Tom

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "mrspeela" <bill@...> wrote:
>
> For 15 years we have been printing T-shirts. We started with an old 
> Seiko, then graduated to the Epson 1160 then added an 1280. These inks 
> were dye based, now we are using the Epson R1800 which uses a pigmented 
> ink. We are finding a color shift when these new pigmented inks are 
> heated. Will the Spyder2Pro allow me to calibrate my monitor to these 
> individual machines.
> 
> We know it is the inks reaction to the paper and the ink to heat. If we 
> go back to dye based inks, we have no issues.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bill
>