Screenprinting Guidelines
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- doddster0
yeah, thankfully I'm not paying!
- mrdobolina0
anyway you look at it, these shirts are going to be expensive.
- doddster0
hey acescne - i dont suppose you know any online resources about this stuff do you?
i'm getting a little worried i'm in a bit out of my depth!
- kodap0
Pay *very* attention to the silk burning, there you'll have half the quality of your work detail
- acescence0
the screen will be more noticeable than say, a magazine, as a tee screen is 55-65 lpi while a mag is typically 133 lpi, but if you use an underbase, it will look fine.
most people go wrong by not accounting for the fact that halftones will have as much as a 50% dot gain!
choke the underbase, and trap any detail that isn't overprinted.
- tehgee0
yeah but they will have that screen in them -unless thats what they want hes not gonna like it!
- acescence0
if your design contains white, print that first and overprint any colors with tints- they will work fine!
- doddster0
thats fine - i dont mind having to pick a colour for the tints - but is using 10 seperate colours a bad idea? seems it to me!
cheers for your help!
- tehgee0
i cant find a picture but i tried it once :?it was aweful!!! u have to pick a color for those tints :\ sorry ot break the news
- acescence0
overprint!
- doddster0
thanks tehgee - much appreciated
- tehgee0
no its not like a print tint - it will be all dots - like a 1/2 tone.. let me see if i can find a sample online
- doddster0
yeah its going on tee.
i'm guessing it will be ok as its all vector artwork - no halftones or anything. but I'm not sure the printers or the people paying for the print would be ahppy with 10 seperate colours.
is it ok to supply a printer with a tint of a pantone or not?
- tehgee0
on a tee? basically the tints are going ti be screened and since its screen printing - its a fat screen so you will clearly see the dots -unless thats what hes going for he wont be happy about that :/
- doddster0
Cheers for your advice guys.
Got a real stupid question...
The artwork I have been given is made up of 4 pantone colours, however the artist has used multiple tints of each Pantone, so they would be seperate inks yeah? So rather than it being a 4ink job, its actually more like an 8ink print yeah?
sorry i know thats probably a daft question but was just wondering...
- randoman0
I agree with version3 but I think you should use spot colors... also try to get a sample of the ink your printer is using so you can have a better idea of how it will print out.
Then again, I've never printed a shit myself, just what I've learned from doing research.
- version30
a proper screenprinter should be able to handle a 1 point line
create it in a vector program and select your own pantone colors
- doddster
I've been asked to artwork up a few designs to be screenprinted onto a T Shirt, and was just wondering if anybody had any useful tips on what to be aware of.
For instance, is there a stroke weight you shouldnt go below to ensure it will print crisply/solid?
Apart from that, and seperating the colours, is there anything else I should be careful of?
Any advice appreciated!