As a screen printer there are times when mistakes happen or something is overlooked
we happened to make the mistake of we didn't realize that there were black shirts
but the conflict is we had a black on black print in which the client's
logo would not show up so i'm going to show you how we resolve that coming up
something that we ran into while doing an order is we didn't really think about
the fact that we're printing black text on a black shirt uh we just happened to come around to
black shirts wasn't on our minds mario caught it thank god and so what we had to end up doing was
making another white screen so we got three white screens on the breath we'll do these black shirts
and i'll show you how it's set up let me show you what the
shirts are looking like it's looking really great and then we happen to come across the black shirts
so how we have this set up we have the white base going down we're flashing it the white base
should be in a 195 might be a 230 was a 230 mario
okay so it's a 230 flashing it then hitting it with the flattening screen but before we threw
in this edition we're doing the black i'm not backing the black up with any kind of white base
hitting it with orange all wet on wet then the gray and a white top but when we saw that problem
we went around flashed all of the shirt and now we're in the process of printing flashing
and printing this white here because we didn't really again wore client provided shirts so we
didn't really notice it had they been something we provided which can be an issue when clients
sometimes you just gotta be creative with finding a solution for these things here's what the shirts
are looking like after adding the extra little saw blade up here at the top just to kind of separate
the black saw blade from the rest of the shirt and we over printed this white here
and did a print flash print and it came out pretty great again here's what it looks like
pre having the white outline around the r and we over printed the white on top of what we already
had here and it wasn't an issue because the shirt wasn't fully cured we had only
flashed it then did a print flash print with the white on top and the outline here now let's dive
into the computer and i'll show you exactly how i had the job set up and also the adjustment
screen shall we say that way we could add white to the black shirts anyways let's get after it
i'm stopping now
first told shannon she had to be quiet and here i am eating chips i'm doing a bad job so one thing i
always recommend is to save your setup files here are or the files that you're going to output your
film with here is the file that we started out with and i'll show you how it's separated and
then how i went about adding the additional white in order to make the font ready set go and this
saw blade here just kind of really stand out on the black shirts i mean we needed it to be white
and we also needed to be able to see the saw blade a little bit how we have this set up we have each
of these colors designated as a spot color we have our orange our gray our black and then we have our
white top and you can see that the white top i put a little bit of a white outline
on it just to kind of choke that white top back that way when you print that white top on
top of your white base and both your your over print colors your gray your orange your black
including your white top they're going to bleed out just a little bit we're using 230 mesh screens
all around and that will just kind of help those colors from just kind of starting to mix together
it gives it a little bit of a separation so that way you can do everything wet on wet and on a
separate layer what we have is we have our white base you'll notice that we do have the orange and
the gray choked back just a little bit and we just accomplished this by using a little bit
of a stroke my white base i normally like to use somewhat of a just kind of a light cyan that way
we can see how much we're choking it back again this is all in illustrator we'll have a link down
below so that way if you don't have illustrator you can get it through our link and it will help
support the channel again we don't have any white bass behind the black we just let that black sit
in to the shirt itself if you're in a situation towards where you like putting a white base behind
your black which i don't recommend all you really would have to do is just tape off this black here
and you should be good to go even though this saw blade's really not going to show up so it
it didn't really work out that way so here's what we had to or what we came up with really is this
additional white that went on top so we took the black and we just copied that over put it on a new
layer up on the top and we ended up printing this out solely i also took this little saw blade here
and i just double clicked on this guide took it hit command c or you could do ctrl c if you're
on a pc and on our layer here we'll just go ahead and demonstrate how this was done real quick i'll
make a new layer and we'll call it test just to kind of show you guys how to go about doing this
so we would take this i'm going to hit command f just to paste that in front and then the next
thing i did is i took the black from ready set go so i took that whole line copied it and i'm just
double clicking out of this grouping if you have a grouping just double click and it will allow you
access to these things to these separate objects now let's go over to our test layer here and hit
command f again again if you're on a pc just control f just paste in front now we just took
this and we already had our white top spot color here so we just made that white again and then
we took this and i'm going to hit command y to see the outlines and then i'm going to hit a on
the keyboard that will give me this little tool up here to the top left and then i just selected all
this here everything i can grab aside from the saw blade hit delete click off it if you were to hit
delete twice it would just delete the whole thing so we don't want to do that we grab every other
little piece here that just doesn't really make up the outside part of the saw blade i'm going to
hit command y now we're left with a semi finish object so i'm just going to to come over here
and then just reverse that out that way it's just an outline and then we just make that outline
white and we just sent this through our rip that we have on our 14 30 and we just sent
the white top through how this all ends up lining up is we use our template like religiously so and
by saving the file we could go back to it we know everything's going to be in the same spot we made
our additional white in which we still have the registration marks all we had to do is pull the
the tape off those registration marks no no and then and then no ending and i'm going to put my
foot in your hips if you say and then again and then line everything up and we're all good to go
i hope this little tip helps out and helps you guys solve something you might run into
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