Printing CMYK on Paper - wet on wet or wet on dry?

[BigmanJames]

Hello.

About to print my first CMYK job onto 100# paper for some prints.

My question is, can you print this method wet on wet or is it better to print it wet on dry? I am wondering if CMYK actually blends the paints together when they are wet, or they overlap each other when dried?

Thanks!

[IVARTON]

I have never printed any paper wet on wet.

[steve w]

dry on wet

[kylewbaker]

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Im printing some art on a carousel 4 color printer without a vacuum table. I know that table tops are preferred.

Is it possible(if there is such inks) to print wet on wet for all four colors? From what ive read, it is better to print each color, let the posters dry and then run the next color. It just seems like alot of work than just going screen to screen while the same paper is on the press. Thanks all for your help.

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It's the latter. Over-prints. Not blending while wet.

You don't want to print paper like shirts. The fact that you have to do all your screens while the shirt stays on the platen is a disadvantage, not more efficient. With paper you'll be using higher mesh which you need to print faster. And you won't have to dry the inks in between pulls, that'll happen naturally while they're racked and you're getting ready for the next screen.

Wet on wet is for double-hits... drying ink, crud on your screen, more opacity, botched flood, etc. Far as I know.

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