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Hello, i need to have some pretty detailed artwork done for my shirts but FM-expressions keeps telling me my work needs to be in vector for format and with a solid backing color (i have Adobe photoshop, not Adobe illustrator so i cant make vectors) I thought that maybe Raw Talent might make plastisol transfers but they sent me back this messege....
"Hi, Thanks for the email.
No, we do not do any transfers. We do high quality screen printing and embroidery. Is there anything that we can help you with in the way of doing plastisol screen printing instead of transfers?"
So does that mean i have to send them my graphic for them to screen
print and they send my shirts to me pre-done? Does that mean i cant
use the blank shirts i wanted to use? And advice would be awsome.
-thanks guys
Hello, i need to have some pretty detailed artwork done for my shirts but FM-expressions keeps telling me my work needs to be in vector for format and with a solid backing color (i have Adobe photoshop, not Adobe illustrator so i cant make vectors) I thought that maybe Raw Talent might make plastisol transfers but they sent me back this messege....
"Hi, Thanks for the email.
No, we do not do any transfers. We do high quality screen printing and embroidery. Is there anything that we can help you with in the way of doing plastisol screen printing instead of transfers?"
So does that mean i have to send them my graphic for them to screen
print and they send my shirts to me pre-done? Does that mean i cant
use the blank shirts i wanted to use? And advice would be awsome.
-thanks guys
Raw Talent screen prints directly onto t-shirts. They don't make transfers.
So you tell them which blanks you want and they will buy them wholesale and screen print on the t-shirts for you and send them back to you printed.
Or you can buy the t-shirts you want wholesale and send them to them. They will print on your t-shirts and send them back to you.
You can use whatever blanks you want with screen printing. Some screen printers prefer to handle the ordering of the blanks, but some will let you ship blanks to them.
I recently ordered through raw talent, and was in the same boat as you, but after completely my order, i just ended up getting shirts thru them, and it took about a week for my design to get to my door. I was very happy with the quality and the print. - I did get discharge tho, not the reg
Thanks alot guys, i bet this is gunna coast an arm and a leg. I sent RawTalent some of my designs and they said i can use adobe photoshop "as long as they are layered files at 300 DPI and close to actual size."
what does that mean? Does that mean i need a solid backing color or something?
-Thanks alot guys
Thanks alot guys, i bet this is gunna coast an arm and a leg. I sent RawTalent some of my designs and they said i can use adobe photoshop "as long as they are layered files at 300 DPI and close to actual size."
what does that mean? Does that mean i need a solid backing color or something?
-Thanks alot guys
HI, What I think they are saying is that you need to set your image quality to 300 DPI. This will increase the file size but the quality of the art will be very good for printing. Also make sure that you make the image as close to the actual size that you want printer. Go to the image size and make sure that you change it to the size you need( 8x10, 11X17, 13X1, etc). This too will increase you file size but it is a must for quality prints. The easiest way to do this is to work with the file in 100-150 DPI resolution and once your done, you can change the image to 300 DPI. Hope this helps
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When I did that, i made my image 20x25 cuz thats raw talents Jumbo- The menu to change everything is when you create a new document.
IMO i would start the design out at 300, cuz when u change from 100 to 300 the image gets a bit fuzzy when u switchit. But there is a way to create vectors in photoshop, its a little trickier but its possible.
I could try and help you w/ it, but still im not PS expert, but i get by
When I did that, i made my image 20x25 cuz thats raw talents Jumbo- The menu to change everything is when you create a new document.
IMO i would start the design out at 300, cuz when u change from 100 to 300 the image gets a bit fuzzy when u switchit. But there is a way to create vectors in photoshop, its a little trickier but its possible.
I could try and help you w/ it, but still im not PS expert, but i get by
It all depends on the image that you start off with. When you change the DPI of the image, make sure that you choose Constrain in order to keep the most image quality as possible. It's the same as if you were resizing a 4X6 to make a 8X10. You can do this with the image you already have open. You should not have to make a new document. I do this all the time.
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Thanks alot guys, i bet this is gunna coast an arm and a leg. I sent RawTalent some of my designs and they said i can use adobe photoshop "as long as they are layered files at 300 DPI and close to actual size."
what does that mean? Does that mean i need a solid backing color or something?
-Thanks alot guys
Anytime you send a design out for screen printing it will need to be a high resolution file.
So when you initially create your design, you need to start with a pallette or canvas that is the size you want in inches (say 12" x 12") AND the canvas has to be 300DPI at that size.
Here's a screenshot of what it should look like in photoshop when you start creating the file:
Rodney is correct. You should start of with a document that is correct size and dpi when creating your artwork. You can't just increase the size or dpi of an already existing pixel based file or piece of art without decreasing the image quality. You will basically be making it lower resolution and it will blurry when printing.
Rodney is correct. You should start of with a document that is correct size and dpi when creating your artwork. You can't just increase the size or dpi of an already existing pixel based file or piece of art without decreasing the image quality. You will basically be making it lower resolution and it will blurry when printing.
Hi jaycen29 and Rodney. I completely agree with what you stated. I work in Photoshop cs3 and I have used it countless times to take very small images that I scanned in and enlarged. The output quality depends on what you scanned them in as in which I stated, but I have had photos that I got off line that had 150DPI when imported, and I was able to use it in graphic design and get great results when I switched to 300 DPI before final print. When I was in school I was taught that it;s easier on the program, especially when using filters and plug ins, if you work in 150 and increase your dpi according to your output need. This has always worked for me.
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300 DPI is a load of nonsense copy and repeated from book printing where it makes sense.
For halftone printing, the rule is 1.5-2.5 times the LPI of the screen. For 55 lpi, this equals 83-138 dpi. Photoshop even gives a warning message when a user prints an image over 2.5 times the LPI.
Line art files are different. The only way to get a postscript printer to recognize a graphic as being line art is if it is a 1 bit per pixel graphic. For this sort of work, the dpi of the graphic should be higher than 300 DPI. An example of this is trying to scan text. At 300 DPI, the text will look lumpy. At 600 DPI, the text would be crisp. Of course if the printing is being done on a 110 mesh, 300 DPI is overkill.
In the case of line art, it is possible to increase the DPI of the file and get final end results. This is because bitmaps are faithfully repeated on the printer. If the image has 72 DPI pixels, they will show up as 72 DPI pixels on the film, even if the film is printed at 720 DPI. Given the same 72 dpi original scaled up to 720 DPI in photoshop, while in grayscale, will smooth the steps as it increases the size. Once sized, the image can be converted to a 720 DPI bitmaps and the lines will be smoother when printed.
Should a similar 72 DPI image be a grayscale or color, it would be halftoned into halftone cells of 55 per inch. Being below 1.5 times, the image would suffer slightly, but overall would make a fine halftone. At 45 LPI, a halftone created from a 72 DPI original could well come out BETTER than one at 300 DPI.
Is it CRITICAL to understand the difference between a halftone and line art. Anyone who doesn't understand the difference needs to go to school and learn. It would be like an auto mechanic who didn't know the difference between an engine and a transmission.
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Thanks everybody, this help is amazing. Im gunna see if i can get my best
art together and see how much is will coast for me to have them print out some shirts.
-Thanks alot guys, what a great thread
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