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Ok, Im trying to get a clothing line up and running and i have a ton of Ideas for shirts, but before i go any further with my designing I wanted to post here and tell me if my shirts are formatted right for printing.
All my designs were made in Photoshop CS on a canvas of 8.5 x 11 inches at 300dpi.
I think the Res should be much higher, in PS , because the large prints are much larger than 8.5 x 11. As a rule of thumb, I recommend clients to be sure i wont have to enlarge the art. Shrinking is fine, as you dont lose detail.
One point to think about is the size of the prints you are looking for. The full front prin ts will cost an arm and a leg for a small company. In fact all of your prints are very large, and for specialty prints you will pay a lot more.
I think the Res should be much higher, in PS , because the large prints are much larger than 8.5 x 11. As a rule of thumb, I recommend clients to be sure i wont have to enlarge the art. Shrinking is fine, as you dont lose detail.
One point to think about is the size of the prints you are looking for. The full front prin ts will cost an arm and a leg for a small company. In fact all of your prints are very large, and for specialty prints you will pay a lot more.
Ps is the last one for Obey?
thanks for the advice, from looking at my tee's what resolution would you reccomend for designs that take up the full front of a Tee? Should i just up the resolution and keep my designs on the same size canvas or keep it at 300dpi and make my canvas at realistic proportions?
and yes the last design was for OBEY it was for a contest they were doing i didnt win, so im going to tweak it up a little bit and use it for my own.
and yes the last design was for OBEY it was for a contest they were doing i didnt win, so im going to tweak it up a little bit and use it for my own.
Even though you made the design, you could run into some legal problems trying to sell that shirt because it features their name and logo.
For the rest of the designs..
You might have a hard time finding someone to print the blue stars design. Not all screenprinters can do this kind of "all over" print. This thread lists a few that can do it:
tell me if my shirts are formatted right for printing.
There's not really a lot of formatting involved. You can include designs placed on shirts like you have for the sake of proofs, but there aren't really any layout rules.
I don't know if it's just meant to be a rough indication, but personally I think your multi-coloured VERVE logo would look odd if you had it the size and place it is currently depicted.
well for the VERVE one i was planning on having each letter ina different fabric and having them sewn on, but what i really wanted to know was that if i just took my files the way they are listed above to a screen printer, would they able to print them at a good quality or would they need to be a higher resolution?
yea this is an intresting question because i would also like shirts printed with the same size design.....what format would you use to print a shirt with a design as large as the skull hoody...
what format would you use to print a shirt with a design as large as the skull hoody...
Any vector file format (cdr, illustrator, eps, etc) Vector files can be scaled as big or as small as you want.
Or a photoshop/bitmap/raster file that is 300dpi at the exact size you want it printed.
So if you were using a photoshop/raster file and you wanted the skull to be 20" across, you would create your blank canvas new file at 20" across and 300 dpi (I think that works out to 6000 pixels wide)
There are screen printed plastisol transfer products that are not priced by the number of colors in the design.
Nathan Anderson
F&M Expressions
if plastisol transfers aernt priced according to the number of colors what are they priced according to, and are they cheaper or more expensive compared to regular screen printing
thanks
if plastisol transfers aernt priced according to the number of colors what are they priced according to, and are they cheaper or more expensive compared to regular screen printing
thanks
They are priced by quantity and size and they are cost effective comparable to screen printing and other transfer products for designs from 3 colors and up.
Around here with the manufacturing oF SPOT color process plastisol transfers we need to account PER color pricing along with sheet size and quantity. Because each color that is printed on the transfer sheet is an additional cost of ink/screens, labour etc....
if plastisol transfers aernt priced according to the number of colors what are they priced according to, and are they cheaper or more expensive compared to regular screen printing
Just to clarify, there are SOME companies that have plastisol transfers that aren't priced by color (like F&M) but MOST companies do charge per color for plastisol transfers
Are My Designs Formatted Right For Printing? 
