Printing on Dark Garments

Dark garments can be a nightmare to screen print .

SPS makes it easy to get the most out of your press when printing on dark substrates.

Learn how to make base plates using the closely guarded secrets of the top industry pros.

"David Cran's base plates are pure genius."

Instead of just printing a grayscale image for your base plate, learn how to boost colors and print images in as little as 6 colors that look like 12 colors!

Create perfect base plates

The fact that regular opaque plastisol inks are used to print the separations combined with the fact that 100% of the image is printed with thousands of interlocking square dots makes this the most ideal system for dark garments.

Screenprint Separator displays white as a color. No more inverting or messing around blindly.

The base plates are also printed with a random square dot.

The exact percentage of base printed under each spot color

can be controlled to obtain perfect results every time.

This gives the softest hand while giving only the colors (ie. Red) that most need it, a base to print on.

All plates are printed from Illustrator and saved in one file.

Using closely guarded secrects of color reduction and base plate creation

Screenprint Separator will enable you to print fully photographic images on black shirts,

even on a six color manual press. Other separation software would require 12 or 13 colors to do what

SPS can do in just 6 custom colors.

Even this spectacular print was printed in just six spot colors on

a manual 6 color press. Using conventional methods this image would require 14 colors.

This is made possible using Illustrators "layers" feature.

Learn the same advanced base plate methods that were used to print this first prize winner by

Midnight Impressions.