Re: [colorvision_group] Digest Number 51
2006-05-17 by William Du Bois
At 3:46 PM -0500 5/17/06, William Du Bois wrote:William, it seems to me that you need to make your profile from a finished
t-shirt.
EXACTLY. That's what I was intending.
Generating CMYK
separations are a bit of a foreign language to most screen printers.
Yep, I'm discovering that. And ColorSyncy is totally
foreign language to them.
I'm not sure how close you'll get to a reliable soft-proof, since screens
can be a pretty unreliable variable. However, it might be 'close enough',
and the more experience in the workflow will identify things (colors,
transitions, etc) to avoid.
That's what I'm hoping. As it is now, it seems it would
take dozens of printed trial t-shirts to get even close. If we
could cut the process down to just a few (via soft proofing), that
would help.
It's a very inexact art. Especially when the two parties
are separated by 1,000 miles.
Thanks, Kris.
Bill
From: "Kris"
Date: Wed May 17, 2006 3:25 pm
Subject: RE: [colorvision_group] Fine Art with T-Shirts
graphikris
Offline
Send Email
Invite to Yahoo! 360ยบ
William, it seems to me that you need to make your profile from a finished
t-shirt. Fastfilms generates dots for positive film that is used to burn
screens, then the t-shirts are printed on a screen press. That's a lot of
steps and I can't see any way to profile from a print any other way.
Using whichever swatch set you prefer, print the separations to film using
fastfilms. Create screens, and make a t-shirt. Generate your profile from
the color patches that you end up with on the finished t-shirt.
I'm not sure how close you'll get to a reliable soft-proof, since screens
can be a pretty unreliable variable. However, it might be 'close enough',
and the more experience in the workflow will identify things (colors,
transitions, etc) to avoid.
The problem with most of these installations come from the fact that screen
printers think in terms of spot colors, not process colors. Generating CMYK
separations are a bit of a foreign language to most screen printers.
Hope this helps!
-kris