screenprint ?
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- heavyarms
I didn't get much response last time so I'm posting the same question with a different title.
Can you get a multiple color image screenprinted that is a tracebitmap pasted into Illustrator or Freehand? I'm not sure if they would be able to seperate the colors properly or if the print quality would be OK.
- meok0
yes. You can even screenprint a color picture if you wanted.
- heavyarms0
OK, the printers said they wanted it in ILL or Corel. It would be 3 spot colors. So I could paste a tracebitmap into ILL and they should be able to seperate it into spot colors?
- heavyarms0
Bump
- rasko40
so long as you have made sure that your trace consists of three colours and you have assigned those colours pantone refs then yes.
- BonSeff0
you should separate the colors if you want it to look the way it should.
- heavyarms0
Thanks guys, BTW how would I seperate them?
- mrdobolina0
use crop marks in the illustrator files and create three files and delete all of the other colors on each file.
- rasko40
you wanna think about what colours you are using and in what order they should be ladi down first, then you will probably have to adjust your artwork so that you end up with a base colour (pale) and the other over printed.. it just requires some logical thought.
- heavyarms0
That what I was thinking he meant. Is that neccessary ( back to raskos first post) or it just want look as good if I don't? BTW is that what the screenprinter himself generally would do, make a seperate file for each color?
- shant0
Yes, they would seperate each color. If you don't want to do it, most screen-printers will do it for you since they know better than you do about the process. Some might charge you though.
- REDWOOD0
you'd beter seperate the colors in photoshop because if you seperate the colors in ill they might been fake seperated because the colors are layered and than you print 2 colors on each other, a fake trapping, not good except when you traced the bitmap with flash because with flash the objects from the different colors are set next to each others.
Good luck.