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I have Inkscape and Gimp, i also have the design i want. When i submit the design to Inkscreens how do i modify it so that it is allover printing compatible. Anybody here do allover printing??? How can i have the logo of my company name on the chest area??
Hello everyone! I am just a beginner and I have I guess pretty simple question, but i just want to make sure if i understand this right, before i buy a program. As far as i understand most people say that Corel Draw X4 is as good as Adobe Illustrator. So, i was thinking to get corel draw x4, my question is, do I need any other programs with it, to make T-shirt designs, or just corel draw is enough to make a design????
I appreciate your help!
I have Inkscape and Gimp, i also have the design i want. When i submit the design to Inkscreens how do i modify it so that it is allover printing compatible. Anybody here do allover printing??? How can i have the logo of my company name on the chest area??
Number one, your design should be on a workspace, in your software, as large as you want it to print at 300 dpi. So, if you want to do all-over prints on men's t-shirts, you have to have your design as large as you will really print it in the software. For example, if you want to print up to a men's 2XL, you need an image in a t-shirt shape around 26" wide in body and 36" wide in the sleeves, and around 34" tall. (Those are just rough estimates, don't go exactly by them.)
Phil, if by wrap around, you mean the design on the garment goes from the front to the back wrapping around the sides? That is not a typical all over print. A typical all over print is just laying the garment on a large pallet and screen printing the front or back side in one giant print that would cover the body and sleeves.
To have a seamless design go around from the front to the back takes a different approach. That is done by printing the fabric before the garment is sewn together. And yes, then the image and its workspace in your software would be as large as the total area printed.
I see several companies offering to print wrap around designs on shirts that are already put together. For instance the design at the bottom right hand corner will go on around to the back. Maybe from mid front to mid back. I'll have to call one of them to see. But it just makes sense to me that the flat design would be contiguous.
OK, I see what you are saying. They load the shirt on the pallet sideways so to speak. You still create the graphic image the same way. In your software you still have your workspace as large as the actual image will print on the garment. But it is not one big wrap around image. It is several images, one for each screen used.
I have done a few shirts like that. It was an expensive process since I had to print the shirts 4 times each for those jobs. Print on front, print on back, print on right side, print on left side. It simlulated a cut, print and sew operation and gave a wrap around seemless and all over look. Every inch of the garment was printed almost.
Now one image can go from the middle and side of the front to the side and middle of the back. That would only be one image. But that is not an all over print.
How to design for allover shirt?? 
