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Silk Screening
- Thread starter Zodd
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The only thing I can think of involving silkscreening is they usually want all artwork to be in Pantone colours. And if you have blends/gradations or halftones in the art it will screen as dots (depending on the percentage of the halftone). Trapping will probably be an issue as well. Ask the printers if they prefer to trap the artwork.
Ask the printer, as Pixelchik said. They know exactly what they need, and it's not at all a bad thing if you don't know everything, so don't feel embarrassed. I'm a screen printer, and I'd much rather have clients ask me questions than receive a file that's horribly wrong...
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I work in screen with Illustrator and we like everything in 100% vector art. We print to our film printer in 100% black.
Send your art unseparated vector with appropriate pantones in place. Screener will do the rest.
We prefer to do the trapping ourselves if needed.
Watch color shades as they will print as halftones, sometimes they look good sometimes not. Ask what their LPI is. Lines Per Inch. This will determine the size of the actual dots. (don't get confused with DPI)
Get the actual imprint area from the screener. Screen printing can have issues with small details. So design your work accordingly.
Some screen printers use a method called Pad Printing. It's like an old school rubber stamper. It causes alot of ink spread so watch small imprint sizes as the details will fill in with ink.
Send your art unseparated vector with appropriate pantones in place. Screener will do the rest.
We prefer to do the trapping ourselves if needed.
Watch color shades as they will print as halftones, sometimes they look good sometimes not. Ask what their LPI is. Lines Per Inch. This will determine the size of the actual dots. (don't get confused with DPI)
Get the actual imprint area from the screener. Screen printing can have issues with small details. So design your work accordingly.
Some screen printers use a method called Pad Printing. It's like an old school rubber stamper. It causes alot of ink spread so watch small imprint sizes as the details will fill in with ink.
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