{"id":438,"date":"2009-06-05T19:19:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T17:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:37","slug":"colour-matching-part-2-the-apron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Colour Matching – part 2 – The Apron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having ruined my new apron (see post from April) I have decided to attempt to repair the screen printing which I damaged. In order to do this, I’m going to use waterslide decals, which can be printed on my inkjet printer. I’m sure that I could use an easier solution (such as the stick on decals which are available – and which I already have) but having seen such decals live, I hate the way they look. Take a look at this picture, for example:<\/p>\n

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A renovated TAF with stick on apron decals<\/p><\/div>\n

Just look at those stick on decals and those edges – yuck!<\/p>\n

As I intend to use the\u00a0waterslide decal on just the Addams Family lettering, I need to match both the purple and white colours. So back to my colour grids from last month. The first thing I noticed was that the purple colour appeared to be a mixture of just cyan and mauve. So I printed a grid of cyan versus mauve with 0% yellow:<\/p>\n

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Cyan vs Magenta Colour Grid (0% yellow)<\/p><\/div>\n

From this, I decide that the best match was with 100% Mauve and 65% Cyan, however the colour was not quite right, so I printed a new colour grid with 100% Mauve and 65% Cyan as the base colour, with different shades of yellow (0 to 40%) and black (0 to 19%):<\/p>\n

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Colour Grid with 100% Magenta and 65% Cyan<\/p><\/div>\n

From this grid (yes the colours are all different), I selected the 30% yellow and 5% black option. Now onto white.<\/p>\n

For white, I assumed that the white colour had been discoloured due to the black gloss paint under the screen print and due to a “yellowing” with age. So I printed out a grid of yellow versus black – and got some great colours of gold but nothing like the colour I was after. So I took a photo of the apron with white printer paper on it (yes, I used the printer paper with “golden” colour grid):<\/p>\n

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Apron with white printer paper<\/p><\/div>\n

I then adjusted the levels of this photo to get a part of the white paper near to the “white” on the apron to have a white CMYK value (all 0%) and then measured the CMYK value of the apron “white” close to my “true white” spot:<\/p>\n

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Manipulated photo<\/p><\/div>\n

The value I finished off with for the “white” was Cyan=40%; Magenta=20%; Yellow=35%; Black=0%.<\/p>\n

Having printed this out, I still wasn’t happy with either colours so fine-tuned them:<\/p>\n

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Fine tuning purple and white<\/p><\/div>\n

I finished choosing the following colours:<\/p>\n

Purple: Cyan=64%; Magenta=100%; Yellow=30%; Black=5%
\nWhite: Cyan=40%; Magenta=20%; Yellow=35%; Black=24%<\/p>\n

Which resulted in the following decals:<\/p>\n

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Apron decals adjusted for colour<\/p><\/div>\n

Now these may look strange, but I cut out The Addams Family logo from the paper and tried it out “in situ” on the actual apron (by simply placing it over the current logo):<\/p>\n

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Apron with "new" TAF decal<\/p><\/div>\n

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New TAF "decal" up close<\/p><\/div>\n

Not bad! Although I will\u00a0have to wait until I print the logo onto the waterslide decal paper to see whether I need any further adjustments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having ruined my new apron (see post from April) I have decided to attempt to repair the screen printing which I damaged. In order to do this, I’m going to use waterslide decals, which can be printed on my inkjet printer. I’m sure that I could use an easier solution (such as the stick on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}