[skulltshirts]

Hello Everyone,
I have seen alot of good questions and some great answers. So here is my main question.

All my designs were made with heat transfer in mind. I would like to see how my designs would look being screen printed. So what would i need to do in order to get my designs transfered to screen printing type files. I make all my designs in photoshop and have everything on seprate layers. But do I need to seprate the layers according to color or how is that done?

You can view my designs at [snipped]

Also is photoshop the right software for screen printing?

I know screen printing is better than heat transfer right?

Thanks in advance!

Thomas

 

[Sac printer]

Your designs would look sick if you screenprinted them!!..I see that you print a lot of black shirts, these would look a lot better screen printed. But just my opinion. I would definantly try having a few of them screenprinted. The screen printer needs to have your work in Vector format (EPS, AI.. etc.) I don't think photoshop will work but I'm not sure. What I do know is that you can use Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw. These are both vectored based programs. good luck.

 

[statc]

From the screen printers I work with, photoshop is fine as long as you rasterize everything and you have it at 300DPI. Only real difference i can see between screenprinting and heatransfer is that with screenprinting you usually want to stay under 6 colors.

 

[skulltshirts]

Ok thanks for the information. Think I will take some down to local screener and have them take a look.

 

[ckelly617]

So, did you have have the shirts screen-printed. What did you think?

 

[Squirts]

I make all my designs in photoshop and have everything on seprate layers. But do I need to seprate the layers according to color or how is that done?

Print a copy of the whole thing so the printer can see what colors go where then change each layer to black so the film positives can be made for each layer..
I use photoshop quite a bit with no problems... You might want to add one more layer with a few registration marks for your printer...

 

[skulltshirts]

No, I havent got to the screenprinters yet. Im hoping that the local people here in my town do the plastitol (?) transfer sheets. That seems like an interesting way to go.

 

[Squirts]

But do I need to seprate the layers according to color or how is that done?

Missed part of what you said (Been a long day) YES colors are seperated by layer
when using photoshop... a screen has to be made for each color in the print.. so to make the film positive each layer is printed individualy for each color in the design...

 

[skulltshirts]

Is there an easy way of doing this color separation? Or do you have to manually separate all the colors. Most of my designs are full color designs and it might be pretty hard to have them screenprinted.