28 Useful Screen Printing Tutorials. It’s been sometime since I last did a post for the designers out there and that’s why I decided to do a post for the t-shirt designers and printers today. Screen printing though it may seem to be an easy task, is actually a vast subject and there is lot to learn till you become an expert of the trend and just learning may not be enough, you need some first hand experience to master screen printing. Anyway, the problem is as always getting started with. And especially for the beginners it may be very confusing. Here’s a compilation of some good screen printing related tutorials that will surely help you with various aspects of screen printing. How to Silkscreen Posters and Shirts A detailed tutorial covering topics like choosing and preparing your screen,preparing artwork to printing the image etc. Screen Printing: Cheap, Dirty, and At Home How to get quality screen print at home for cheap.
Screenprinting using drawing fluid and screen filler How to Prepare Artwork for Screen-Printing. Screen Printing Halftones: Screen Print Photographs, Four Color Process, Moiré Patterns. Learn How To Screen Print With Catspit Productions, LLCHalftone Printing Halftone Printing: General Recommendations & Guidelines This aspect of screen printing can get technical and become laden with unfamiliar terminology. Yet there is some very basic information we can relay without becoming too technical. However, a thorough knowledge of screen printing and art set up is needed to fully grasp this information in order to achieve good results.
It is recommended that you begin by reading many of the other articles on this website before continuing further. Here are some general recommendations for working with halftones in screen printing. Some points to remember: Large areas of the same color or dark areas will be the most likely to cause moiré patternsUse stable, metal frames of the same dimensionsUse the same mesh on all of the screens Stretch all of the frames with the same procedure and tensionUse very sharp, clean edged squeegeesTry to use high viscosity inks with halftones. T-Shirt Design Software | Produktdesigner für Ihren Onlineshop. Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel! Introduction This is a tutorial or a simple “how-to” guide to help you with your design projects. This is not the end-all, be-all way of doing things. We will try to make what is normally a long and detailed process of creating commercial art into a simple and easy-to-follow guide.
We encourage your use of artistic license and creative vision to make high quality work for your clients. I wrote a brief tutorial on Apparel Design roughtly a year ago and it received a lot of good response. But it’s a bit outdated now. Needless to say, we’ve learned a lot about what’s hot in today’s “underground” fashion market. Everything you see in Hot Topic or Pac Sun these days features some combination of skulls, flourishes, splatters, and miscellaneous grunge effects.
Before You Begin How do you make all those flourishes, splatters, and other design elements? We at Go Media prefer to create our own elements. On With the Tutorial! You’ll need these: – Photoshop – Illustrator CS2 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5. 6.) 7.) Color Separations by Scott Fresener $50 | If you don’t have time to learn or use an automated separation program like T-Seps, or if you don’t do enough high-end work - or if you are just overloaded and need help with seps – let Scott Fresener do the seps for you for the low price of only $75 for any number of colors.
Scott does thousands of color separations per year for companies large and small including printers who print for WalMart, major licensed merchandise and more. Whether you have a 12-color automatic press or a 6-color manual press, getting a great set of seps makes jobs print easy and eliminates the headaches. If you need separations on a regular basis the fee is only $50 per set if you buy the new pre-paid 10-pack. To order color separations and get more details about this service go the NEW Color Separation Service website HERE. If you are new to printing high-end images on light and dark shirts you MUST read an article on how to do this. Click here to see the article. T-Shirt Forums. Screen printing information on mesh size, mesh size information, silk screening information. Information about frame type. Ryonet provies high quality aluminum pre-stretched screens in various sizes and mesh counts.
All aluminum frames are extruded with the highest grade aluminum and cut and welded right here in the USA. Once welded, the frames are then sandblasted to insure mesh bonds properly to the aluminum and retain its tension through thousands of imprints. Screens are stretched pneumatically to industry standard tensions using high grade mono filament poly mesh and held using syanoacryloid glue.
More about aluminum frames. More about screen printing mesh size: Different mesh sizes are used for different applications in the screen printing process. Your basic and most standard mesh sizes are 110 and 156. 110 mesh lays a fairly thick layer of ink down. Exposure Notes: Different mesh sizes hold different amounts of emulsion, due to how big the holes in the mesh are.