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Questions about printing, the process of reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.

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4 color separation on black shirts

Having been in the screenprinting and embroidery business for 27 years, I can definitely answer any of your questions. Four color process printing on garments is intended for white shirts only. The r …
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Does text, built in Illustrator, pasted into Photoshop as a smart object, need to be convert...

One of the main reasons printers will ask you to convert your text outlines, in illustrator, is because if they do not have the font on their system that you used to create your text with, illustrator …
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Printing on small sheets of polypropylene

Assuming that the artwork to be printed is just simple basic line art, and assuming you just need a one color print, screen printing may be your best option. For arguments sake let's use the number 10 …
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Corel: color profiles and print specs for print

To simply state that the document needs to be set up in CMYK color mode is not necessarily the proper solution. It is possible though, that setting up the document in CMYK color mode will fix the prob …
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Photoshop replace color with specific color

If I understand correctly, the result you're looking for would be this? It was pretty simple using Photoshop actually. At first I attempted using the color replacement tool. After five minutes exp …
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How can I keep a solid background behind text?

Make sure your text is selected and in your attributes panel, select "Overprint Fill".
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Pantone colours or CMYK for a 1 colour t-shirt print?

I will address each question one by one for you CMYK printing is also known as four color process in the screen printing industry. For printing on garments, CMYK is used most of the time to achieve p …
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Gold Metallic Pantone Colour for Print

You will not find an accurate representation of Metallic Gold, Gold Shimmer, or Gold Flake Ink in the Pantone books. If you want the screenprint to literally look like Metallic Gold or Gold shimmer, …
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Trying to make a shirt design with 4000 max anchor points, but "Simplify" option is disabled

The way your image is at the moment, with that "distressed" look (all of the voids and hollows) in each letter, Will be nearly impossible for a plotter. If you did an image trace in illustrator, conv …
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Trying To Print to PDF in Illustrator

On Macintosh if you do not have a postscript printer connected to your computer, you can still output separations using the ADPDF9.PPD (post script printer driver). Instead of doing a Google search l …
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Saving a PSD file as EPS for better quality

I have been in the printing industry and designing graphics, for all sorts of printing, for pretty much my entire adult life. Here's the best advice I can give you... Creating any new Photoshop file …
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T-Shirts Design Print

I know it all seems confusing at first, but you are making this more complicated than it really is. For your purposes, unless the screen printer will be printing using the four color process method ( …
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