Garment designs that feature blends tend to attract more attention than plain decorations. Trimingham explains how to develop standards for applying blends in your printing operation.
Blending one color into another to get a third color should be a simple enough process, right? Sure, yellow and red make orange—but numerous challenges await when it comes to blending these colors as halftones on a screen-printing press. Dot overlap, bleeding, dot gain, and poor coverage are just a few of the issues that can plague an otherwise simple process in a hurry by flatbed printers.