Re: Im curious about what needs to be done when you sumbmit your design to a printshop.
Every shop will be different. The more you can do on your own the cheaper it will be.
If you are inclined to do your own artwork, you can find many tutorials on the internet to learn CorelDraw.
Most shops will be glad to explain the process and what they can do to help you.
Re: Im curious about what needs to be done when you sumbmit your design to a printshop.
I'd suggest polling the shops you plan on doing business with as to what programs they use, what file formats they prefer, and (in the case of photoshop stuff) what resolution they need. If you're creating your own art in CorelDRAW, Illustrator, or Photoshop, unless you are instructed otherwise, it's probably a good plan to keep files as editable as possible, and with Photoshop in particular, in layers. A shop can always flatten a file, but if it needs even a little editing, it's much easier (and cheaper) if the file is still layered. Also, in Photoshop, it's best to create your art from the get-go at 300dpi at the actual print size. If the shop wants a little less resolution to speed up output, they can change it (or ask you to), but resampling low res files to try and eliminate pixellation, or to increase dimension, is never a good idea.
Re: Im curious about what needs to be done when you sumbmit your design to a printshop.
If you do not know what you are doing, you are probably better off having the screen printer do it. Some printers charge a fee, others hide the fee in the price of the printing. For most jobs, a graphic person who knows what they are doing can separate the job in 15 minutes. Should there be problems with the graphic, i'm quite sure the printer will complain.
Color is divided into 3 categories, spot color and process color and simulated process. The vast majority of screen printers only do spot color. While this limits you to a fixed number of colors such as 6 or less colors and each color has an additional fee. The upside is that the colors will be mixed to be the pure color. This really makes things pop!
Process color is the strong point of DTG and sublimation, a few screen printers will print process.
Simulated process is a color separation technique to turn full color images into a finite number of spot colors. This is how the nascar and wrestling merchandise are done. This technique requires high minimal orders.
I'd suggest you ask a few printing companies to give you a price. The first thing they will ask to see is the graphic file. I'm sure if you ask a few printers, at least one will want to take the job and explain how they would print it.
If you can post the graphics to the group, i'm sure a few of us would have an opinion.
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Re: Im curious about what needs to be done when you sumbmit your design to a printshop.
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Originally Posted by tpitman
I'd suggest polling the shops you plan on doing business with as to what programs they use, what file formats they prefer, and (in the case of photoshop stuff) what resolution they need. If you're creating your own art in CorelDRAW, Illustrator, or Photoshop, unless you are instructed otherwise, it's probably a good plan to keep files as editable as possible, and with Photoshop in particular, in layers. A shop can always flatten a file, but if it needs even a little editing, it's much easier (and cheaper) if the file is still layered. Also, in Photoshop, it's best to create your art from the get-go at 300dpi at the actual print size. If the shop wants a little less resolution to speed up output, they can change it (or ask you to), but resampling low res files to try and eliminate pixellation, or to increase dimension, is never a good idea.
Out of curiosity though - I used to order company uniforms with up to 6-coloured logos, always sent a .jpg file and none of the printers raised a fuss.
I only presumed (of course I'm clueless about these things) the printers would prefer a flat .jpg file i.e. the ultimate, finished design - and not in layers, because I wouldn't want them moving the different layers out of position, that might change the look entirely.
So my question is, why would a printer want a file to be "editable" ?
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