Gray Is The New White

I’ve changed the design of one of my black T-shirts that I’m selling through CafePress. Instead of saying Real Navy, it now says Regular Navy. When I uploaded the image and previewed the new shirt, what I had as white in the image appeared gray online. I thought I had messed something up, so I checked the colors and uploaded again, same gray results.

I next went over to the CafePress Forums to see if there was any mention of this issue. Sure enough, there is a sticky at the top of the general announcements board that they have muted the colors on the black T-shirts to better represent the actual finished product. Seems they were overly optimistic on their ability to get good solid printing on black.

Actually it works out kind of OK for me, the printing comes out looking like it is done in ‘Battleship Gray’, which is pretty much the official color of Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club anyway.