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SPOT COLOUR PRINTING
This method is used mainly to separate designs that
consist of large areas of solid colours and occasional tinting (halftones).
Suited to printing corporate logos and designs, where the colours
are matched according to client specifications or the Pantone Matching
System®.
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| Type of Designs: |
Clipart, line art, company logos,
text, numerals, cartoons, etc. |
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| Separation make-up: |
Separations are made up of a pattern
of varying size halftone dots, printed at an angle on top of
one another. The angles of each screen usually remain constant
in spot colour separations. |
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| Lpi & Screen Angle: |
Basic spot colours with simple tints
35lpi @ 25°
Spot colours with finer detail and tinting 45lpi @ 25° |
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| Plastisol Ink Range: |
UNIFLEX 7000, 8000 and 9000 series
UNIFLEX Speciality Inks |
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| Computer Software: |
Vector based programme — used
for drawing or illustration. Specially designed Textile Printing
separation software is also available. |
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STANDARD PROCESS COLOUR
PRINTING
This method is used to reproduce photorealistic images
using 4-colour process separations -the same system used in the
Lithographic and Graphic industries. All the colours in your design
are made up through the combination of the 4 Standard Process Colours,
namely: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK).
Used mainly to print on white or light coloured garments
and as UNIFLEX PROCESS COLOURS are transparent and therefore cannot
be printed onto black or dark backgrounds. Printing process colours
on an underbase white may result in a pastelized or a “dirty”
looking print; unless flash drying between each colour.
Process Colour printing also demands stricter controls
of the printing process, selecting correct mesh count providing
high tension screens and precise alignment and registration of screens.
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| Type of Designs: |
Photographs and complex images |
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| Separation make-up: |
Separations are made up of a pattern
of varying size halftone dots, printed at an angle on top of
one another. The angles of each screen vary to prevent the occurrence
of Moiré patterning. (Refer
Glossary) |
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| Lpi & Screen Angle: |
| If print is predominately green,
angle of positives as follows:- |
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| Yellow |
75° |
| Cyan |
22.5° |
| Magenta |
52.5° |
| Black |
67.5° |
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angle of positives as follows:- |
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| Yellow |
7.5° |
| Cyan |
22.5° |
| Magenta |
52.5° |
| Black |
67.5° |
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| Plastisol Ink Range: |
UNIFLEX PROCESS COLOURS |
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| Design Improvements: |
Use additional Spot Colours to accentuate
parts of the design or match client’s specific colours. |
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| Computer Software: |
Pixel based programme — used
for photographic retouching and editing. Separations can be
imported into a Vector based programme to add Spot Colour text
or design elements. Specially designed Textile Printing separation
software is available. Specially designed Textile Printing separation
software is also available. |
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SIMULATED PROCESS COLOUR
PRINTING
This method has the appearance of a Process Colour
print but, instead of only using CMYK these prints are made up of
halftone screens of specific spot colours - the amount of colours
used depends on the design requirements and printing limitations.
As the separations are made up of spot colours, they can be printed
on both light and dark backgrounds, using an underbase on the latter.
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| Type of Designs: |
Photographs and complex images |
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| Separation make-up: |
Separations are made up of a pattern
of varying size halftone dots, printed at an angle on top of
one another. The angles of each screen vary to prevent the occurrence
of Moiré patterning. (Refer
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| Lpi & Screen Angle: |
50 - 65lpi @ 25° |
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| Plastisol Ink Range: |
UNIFLEX 7000, 8000 and 9000 series
UNIFLEX Speciality Inks |
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| Computer Software: |
Pixel based programme — used
for photographic retouching and editing. Separations can be
imported into a Vector based programme to add Spot Colour text
or design elements. Specially designed Textile Printing separation
software is also available. |
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INDEX COLOUR PRINTING
This method is used on designs that have a large range
of colours that can be reduced to a smaller “palette”
of the most prominent colours. The number of colours selected (indexed)
depends on your print setup, but most designs require a minimum
of 6 colours to really standout.
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| Type of Designs: |
Photographs and complex images that
will lend themselves to a slightly grainy posterized effect. |
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| Separation make-up: |
Separations are made up same sized
random, square dots (pixels) that are printed next to one another. |
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| Lpi & Screen Angle: |
As these separations are not made
up of halftone dots, there are not settings for lpi or angle.
Print directly from photo imaging software. |
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| Plastisol Ink Range: |
UNIFLEX 7000, 8000 and 9000 series
UNIFLEX Speciality Inks |
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| Computer Software: |
Pixel based programme — used
for photographic retouching and editing. Separations can be
imported into a Vector based programme to add Spot Colour text
or design elements. Specially designed Textile Printing separation
software is also available. |
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