After the printing process, it was cured to the Dupont white ink settings. The shirt was then pretreated with FireBird Gen3, dried to the touch, and kissed with the heat press before printing. The Firebird Digital CMYK has a very good rich color, especially in the blues and greens.” For inks, our white ink came from the Dupont 5000 series, while the CMYK was derived from the Firebird Digital. Using Neorip, we used our own custom inhouse profiles to give us the best and most accurate color output.
While it may be slow, its detail by far is the best compared to the production machines. Double click any process color swatch in the Swatches palette. You can easily CONVERT process colors to screen-print friendly spot colors.
It’s an older machine, but we keep it around for the highest demanding images. The Adobe Illustrator software manual may not give the specific instructions a screen-printer needs to prepare a graphics file for spot color. “Because of the detail, we used an All American Neoflex 1. With so much detail, a high-quality ring-spun garment, which would produce a much-needed smooth flat surface, was chosen. After the production of the colors were achieved, the garment became the focus. The team began the process by using Adobe Illustrator on a tablet and then Photoshop. Printing bright colors with DTG is always a challenge, so we make sure to choose the proper RGB and additionally make changes to our rip out to enhance certain colors so they will pop even more.” We can see which colors will flow together well and give the proper contrast before we even send to print.
“We know with our set up how all different colors will print, so when we design, we can make the correct color correlations.
“When doing any type of DTG work, making sure your screen is calibrated to match your rip software and out of the printer is very important,” says Cantalupo. The colorful design is a symbol for the strength of women. Typically, Native American women did not wear headdresses (warbonnets). Inspired by the beauty and bravery of Native Americans, Gerald Cantalupo Jr., Breakthrough owner and chief printing officer, and his team set out to make an updated version of what a modern day Native American woman could achieve. New Jersey-based Breakthrough Custom Clothing created “Warrior Princess” from scratch by digitally hand drawing the entire piece.