The inks are transparent and the screening of the four colors in many thousands of tiny dots renders the full spectrum on the shirt complete with any variations in shading that may occur. Four color process printing on t-shirts is not an exact science. To begin with, an image cannot be reproduced with the amount of detail that one gets when printing on paper. We have had great success over the 10 years we have been doing process work when reproducing original artwork from paints, pastels, guache, or colored pens. Reproduction of photography is tricker and, while our customers have been satisfied, they approached their projects knowing that the final results would be less than photographic.
Artwork is supplied to the printer in any number of forms.
Hard forms range from original artwork to slides. We can accept them on disk or by email, although we are really happy when an emailed file is stuffed before uploading. Spot Color Spot color printing uses distinct ink colors. Our presses allow us to use from one to six colors on a design. The image above is a six color using black,green, brown, red, purple and gray, with some additional half-tone shading in the black.