4 Color Screen Printing

It has been nearly 13 yrs since I've had a 4 color screen printing machine.  I used to love the expression of designing and selling a t shirt.  Of course, back then things were a little different.  I was on a college campus, surrounded by younger, more daring folks and was intoxicated nearly all of the time.  Now things have changed a bit...the crowd isn't nearly as young or daring.  But neither here nor there, I've somehow managed to stumble upon a 4 color screen printing press here in the jungle.

It took some time to get her all geared up and ready to go but it looks as if I've finally reached the stage of learning how to print t-shirts again!  I'm an old user of Photoshop but now it's taking me some time researching to finally get a grasp on the whole process.  I've decided to "simplify" my life and begin with CYMK printing.  That's the basic 4 color separation that fools the human eye into seeing more colors.  This includes breaking the picture into separate colored layers, printing them at a high d.p.i, adjusting the degree of tilt for each color, dot formation and printing.  Wheew!  It's far more complicated than I remember but I'm working through it.

To make the Cyan Yellow Magenta and Black printing  you need to create Cyan by mixing Green and Blue together and Magenta by mixing Red and Blue together. Black is black and yellow is yellow.

I'll be posting more on my 4 color findings as things progress.  It's ok...we're in the "slow" season here in the Jungle, so I should have plenty of time to figure all of this stuff out.  The only problem, of course, is getting re-supplied.  Ordered some things last week and it needs to be transported by ground, boat and then ground again.  Always an adventure!