Pantone color to transparency?

[activeseven]

Hello all! I've been working on having shirts printed for a car club recently. Now I've come up with a basic design which I like, but since this is the first "shirt" I have done I find myself with a question or two that I would appreciate some help on.

This is the piece which I am working on:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6422/logo3snjsk6.png

Now, I'm at the point where I am trying to get this done in 2 colors. As I said before this is my first time working on this type of project (making shirts) so I find myself thinking about issues that I have never really come across before.

I need parts of this image to go from ink to shirt color, IE a pantone color to transparent. For instance the Dodge Ram logo I would like to fade from white to shirt color, now I can't just plug in the shirt color at one end of the gradient I need it to go to totally transparent.

Could anyone assist me in producing this effect properly so that there are no issues at the printer please?

Thanks in advance everyone!

[PrintDriver]

http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26499

http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24197

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Not gonna ask how you are going to do a silkscreened gradient.......
If these are DTG prints, you will have trouble with a gradient on a dark color shirt.

[activeseven]

I apologize for my ignorance PrintDriver, I honestly have no clue about silkscreening as it is painfully obvious I guess :)

I knew about using transparency masks but again in my own ignorance of this subject I was sure if things were "different" when printing shirts. I guess its better to ask just to be safe :)

Thankfully this isn't a paying client but more of a favor for a car club I am a member of. I would never take a job that I wasn't sure of how to do.

That being said, I wasn't aware that a gradient would be an issue for silkscreening. I guess in the back of my mind I wrote it off since I have seen so many t shirts in my life with wonderful artwork on it I just assumed gradients weren't a problem.

I consider myself humbled and more educated, thank you :)

[PrintDriver]

You need to talk to your vendor. That's all.

[carter the artist]

Isn't this just two different car logos?

[Drazan]

The vendor is really the deciding factor in all this. Some screen printers can do just about any type of artwork including photos even on black shirts. However ours usually puts down a background of white first then screens over it.

Some screen printers are not capable of gradients because of the way they are set up. Others compensate by using halftone to create the illusion of a gradient.

There's also heatpress transfers that can also be full color - again, there are issues with darker colors.

Call around.