I haven't written much on here lately, but as far as work is concerned things are going well (aside from the terrible terrible noise of the printers which is driving me mad).
We got a new set of dyes in recently. The last ones were had issues with sublimation, leaving a sort of ghosted wash of colour on the white areas of a design as the fabric was treated post-print. The new dyes are high energy and do not have this issue at all from what we have seen in our testing so far. Most of the colour profiling has been completed. Which is teaching the printer what kind of ink it is using, and which colours. Now comes the human element of colour management, and it should be pretty interesting.
Most printers as you know are CMYK, and ours start out that way but we then have 4 other colours. Our acid dyes its CMYK, and then Orange, Red, Blue, and Grey (or 'Light Black'). The dispersed dyes we replaced were also set up this way with subtle differences, but the new ones are CMYK, Green, Red, Violet, Light Black. So we're expecting an interested first round or so of testing.
The woman I've been working with to profile everything is very good at this sort of thing, and I'm no slouch either - but I'm looking forward to seeing how exactly we need to reevaluate our colour mixing abilities to match our Pantone book.
