Datacolor User to User Support Group.

We have licensed some fine art images to a t-shirt company and are 
trying to get a decent match between the art and t-shirt.

They are miles away and it would be nice if we could get a profile 
for each of the conditions under which shirts would be printed. 
That way we could soft proof the result and at least cut down on the 
number of number of press runs it takes to get closer to a match.

They use software to make their separations from the U.S. Screen 
Printing Institute (now know as U.S. Screen Print & Injet Technology).

The software is called is called FastFilms.  Apparently, it can do a 
softproof internally but that is of litte use to us without buying 
the sofware which is about $1,000.

http://screenprinters.net/product.php?pid=fastfilms

My question is about printing targets out on several different colors 
of t-shirts (white, natural, colored) and trying to build a profile 
for each.   That way we could softproof in Photoshop.

Questions?

1.  Does that sound feasible?

2.  What settings should we request be used in FastFilms when targets 
are printed on t-shirts?


We just need to get closer to being in the ballpark to cut down on 
the number of press runs that need to be mailed back and forth.