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October 7, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Create a 5 Color Print Using 3 Colors
There may be a time when a customer requests a multicolor print that requires more colors than your press can handle. Luckily, you have a few tricks you can do to make it work. Screen printing expert Colin Huggins will walk through creating the artwork for the print and how to set it up on press.
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September 16, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Screen Print Wet on Wet Halftones and Color Blends for a Vintage Look
Remember when expert Colin Huggins showed how to create halftones and blends in Adobe Illustrator? Now he's printing that design. Watch to learn how to print wet-on-wet halftones and blends, tips to get the best colors and blends, and how shirt colors affect the look of the print.
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September 2, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Color Separate Blends and Halftones for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator
Screen printing master Colin Huggins is here with another deep dive into artwork! In the latest video, Colin explains how to do color separations for blending and halftones in Adobe Illustrator. He shares insights about the techniques that'll dial in your design and make it ready for perfect blending. Take a look!
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July 29, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Create a White Underbase in Adobe Illustrator
And we're back to Screen Printing Art 101! If you watched the video about making color separations in Adobe Illustrator, you'll want to watch our latest video as well. Screen Printing Expert Colin Huggins walks you through the process of creating the white underbase in Illustrator.
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July 1, 2020 Sage Larson

A Close Up Look of Screen Printing Emulsion Under a Microscope
Once you have picked a screen, coated it, exposed it, and washed it out, the burned screen is ready to go. As you analyze the screen and stencil, have you ever wondered how the fine details look up close?
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May 20, 2020 Luke Ryerkerk

Simple Color Separations In Illustrator Tutorial
For some screen printers, using illustrator to separate colors can be overwhelming at times. Luckily, the main roadblock people run into is but is over-thinking the process. In this video, I will show a simple way to separate a design using some key tools in Illustrator.
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May 6, 2020 Sage Larson

Artwork Made Simple — New Art Digital Services
We're pumped to announce the launch of our new digital art services. Artwork.Halftoned.com, powered by GraphX Source, will help you with your art that needs to be vectorized, color separated, or digitized, and get it back quickly and print-ready at a reasonable price.
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April 14, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Use Vector Textures in Your Design for Screen Printing
Art vector packs are a powerful tool for any printer. To make that tool useful for you, you need to know how to use it. Cory Romeiser, the artist behind Golden Press Studio's art vector packs, walks through the process of applying the texture pack to your designs in our latest video.
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July 26, 2017 Marshall Atkinson

Saving the Customer From Themselves
An important aspect of the sales process involves educating the customer, and sometimes this can include the sensitive topic of personal taste involving the artwork. There are times when a client brings in artwork that you know as an experienced printer is just not going to look very good. Whether it’s the design itself or […]

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