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A Checklist of Equipment & Supplies Needed to Start Screen Print Shop
Ready to start screen printing? It's a big jump, but it's so worth it. To build your shop, you will need to obtain some equipment and supplies. Our Sales and Success Team put together a handy check list of everything you should consider investing in your future shop.
Sim Process Separations | The Secret to Photorealistic Screen Prints
SIM Process Separations might be one of the hardest things to do well in screen printing. Luckily, we have good news! We’re sharing the secrets to achieving photo-realistic screen prints with step-by-step instruction using SIM Process color separations. We’ll walk you through the entire process from design, separation, to printing on press in our Photoshop for Screen Printing: Advanced Color Separations course!
Everything You NEED TO KNOW to Print Sim Process
This video - part of our "Photoshop For Screen Printing: Advanced Color Separations" course, focuses on the process of printing a design on a t-...
Photoshop for Screen Printing: Advanced Color Separations
Step up your screen printing game with our Advanced Photoshop Course, tailored just for screen printers. This course builds upon the basic skills you've learned, pushing your design and color separation capabilities to greater heights.
A Crash Course in Halftones for Screen Printing
Halftones are utilized in many screen print shops. They create crazy details that can be screen printed onto a garment. But what are halftones exactly? How are they created? Let’s dive in and find out.
Tips for Adjusting Dot Gain in Artwork in Adobe® Photoshop
Imagine this: you separate halftone artwork in Photoshop and it looks great. When you go to screen print it onto a garment, the image looks oversaturated and areas that should “fade” are way too dark. Those halftone dots didn’t all work together to create the masterpiece you saw on your computer screen.
Sound familiar? It’s called dot gain and occurs whenever a squeegee is pulled across a screen, causing pressure. The good news is that there’s an easy way to adjust for dot gain within Adobe® Photoshop.
How to Use Adobe® Photoshop to Convert a Design into Halftones
With Adobe® Photoshop, printers can convert any grayscale image into halftones. Don’t have R.I.P. software? Not a problem. By using a bitmap, printers can create a halftone pattern that will print images like a dream. Here’s how to do it.
