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Re: [colorvision_group] Fine Art with T-Shirts
2006-05-18 by CDTobie@aol.com
> 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?
I've done so before (and have a drawerful of tshirts with our profiling target on them as a result)...
>
> 2. What settings should we request be used in FastFilms when
> targets are printed on t-shirts?
The same ones they use when printing the tshirts. In other words, burn the films (assumedly CMYK) the same way they do when processing images, treating the target as one more image.
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>
> 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.
>
Screenprinting is not as tightly controlled as offset press, but as long as they are starting with RGB images, then your RGB image of the profiling target will be reasonably representative of the process, and you will get a reasonable screen proof. If they are using CMYK files, then you don't have a straightforward way to profile that with PrintFIX PRO, as its designed to profile RGB processes.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@colorvision.com
www.colorvision.com