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Tracy

March 13, 2014, 12:44:24 PM
anyone know the lightest screen percentage you can put on Dark Blue paper

877 Silver

mwc

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March 13, 2014, 12:50:19 PM
our platesetter holds at least a 1%
 :lmao:

Farabomb

#2
March 13, 2014, 12:51:58 PM
Do you want to see it?

100% doesn't show how you would expect. In order to get the effect we had to do a hit of white then silver on top in order to get the affect needed.
Speed doesn't kill, rapidly becoming stationary is the problem

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Quote from: Ear on April 06, 2016, 11:54:16 AM
Quote from: Farabomb on April 06, 2016, 11:39:41 AMIt's more like grip, grip, grip, noise, then spin and 2 feet in and feel shame.
I once knew a plus-sized girl and this pretty much describes teh secks. :rotf:
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Possum

#3
March 13, 2014, 12:52:48 PM
Since that silver is metallic, I'd be afraid to go below 50%. If you lose that silver sheen, it will just show up black and invisible.
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Tracy

#4
March 13, 2014, 12:59:24 PM
thanks guys! I told them 60% and above but I wasn't sure

Fontaholic

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March 13, 2014, 01:20:58 PM
In my experience, the best way to get a truly metallic sheen on a dark stock is by foil stamping rather than printing with ink.

If that's not an option, then I'd go with what F-Bomb's saying -- a hit of opaque white ink, followed by the silver ink, which should really "pop" out with the added background.

Cheers, John the Fontaholic  :drunk3:

Chilbear

#6
March 13, 2014, 01:30:21 PM
Just for S&Giggles ask the press operator if he would prefer a trapped silver dot to a reverse of dark Blue. Eyes should rollup ...

Farabomb

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March 13, 2014, 01:44:02 PM
Actually now that I think of it after the testing with the white and such we ended up just using white instead of the silver. This was on a dark navy metallic stock. The design was dumb as well. A mix of large and tiny script font with some really fine strokes in it. One of those the designer thought of a great idea but didn't consider the limitations of the substrate.
Speed doesn't kill, rapidly becoming stationary is the problem

I'd rather have stories told than be telling stories of what I could have done.

Quote from: Ear on April 06, 2016, 11:54:16 AM
Quote from: Farabomb on April 06, 2016, 11:39:41 AMIt's more like grip, grip, grip, noise, then spin and 2 feet in and feel shame.
I once knew a plus-sized girl and this pretty much describes teh secks. :rotf:
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
         —Benjamin Franklin
My other job

David

#8
March 13, 2014, 05:42:15 PM
it's never the paper...   LOL


most people don't realize that the silver metallic inks turn gray on dark stocks if they are less than 100%, an' they don't look too silvery either.
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gnubler

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March 14, 2014, 12:26:03 PM
Quote from: david on March 13, 2014, 05:42:15 PMit's never the paper...   LOL

It's always the paper when it comes to copier techs placing blame.
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So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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