How to match iron on background color to shirt color - revised?

Question

I posted this question earlier, but I don't think I was clear enough. I want to do an iron on transfer to a t-shirt, and want to know a good method for matching the backgound color to the shirt color. Here is the link to the image I want...it's an album cover

http://backe83.50g.com/king_crimson_-_discipline_-_front.jpg

I want this to be on a red shirt, and as you can see, the design has plenty of holes where the red would show through. Every time I have tried, the red comes out too light. Anyone have any thoughts?

Answer 1

Ok cool... as I said before, either make a completely different colour for inside the knotwork (you'll probably have to use a graphics program, or re-draw it yourself and scan the image), or go to silkscreen. Silkscreen will print only the blue image on one pass, then just the black on another pass, and you won't have to print the red at all.

Matching colours - especially reds - is one of the hardest things to do when working with an inkjet printer, because the red cartridge just wants to print magenta.