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T-shirt printing:Gradients using half tone
Saturday, 28 Mar, 2009 – 15:43 | 2 Comments
T-shirt printing:Gradients using half tone

Gradients require a little thinking about when screen printing. Moire patterns are tricky to avoid, many printers have their own rule of thumb calculations to decide on meshes, the most common are 3.5 or 4 …

Sucker Punch
Friday, 20 Mar, 2009 – 10:44 | No Comment
Sucker Punch

This T shirt design by Murkin uses 6 colours and is printed at our maximum proportions of 14×16. We prefer to print slightly under these dimensions especially when using half tones, but will make exceptions …

Printing Hoodies: 6 colour spot separation
Wednesday, 11 Feb, 2009 – 19:55 | 4 Comments
Printing Hoodies: 6 colour spot separation

A nice colourful design came through this week for Celefest. Initially this job was more than 6 colours, a little reworking made the design more affordable but had little effect on the impact of the …

6 Great Sites for Vector Resources and Tutorials
Sunday, 25 Jan, 2009 – 23:53 | 3 Comments
6 Great Sites for Vector Resources and Tutorials

Here is a list of great sites for vector resources and tutorials. Regardless of your illustrating or design experience, there should be something in these vector sites for you. Each site generally contains a different …

More Cheerleaders T shirts
Thursday, 15 Jan, 2009 – 16:03 | No Comment
More Cheerleaders T shirts

In the space of a couple of months we have printed two cheerleading T shirt designs, this is up on the previous 30 years, in which time we printed absolutely zero. We are interested to …

T- shirt design:Creating simplified artwork from a photograph
Wednesday, 14 Jan, 2009 – 14:35 | 2 Comments
T- shirt design:Creating simplified artwork from a photograph

So you’ve got this idea about taking a favourite snap and converting it to something that can be printed in a minimum of  colours, eh?
Plus you’d like to give the subject of your photo a …

Vectorising sketched artwork and drawings
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 – 13:14 | 5 Comments
Vectorising sketched artwork and drawings

Somebody sends us their artwork that they would like printed out onto T shirts.
How is it done?
Follow me into the studio…
We get artwork in a whole variety of forms from finalised vector graphics to a …

Frenzy in the ball pool
Tuesday, 9 Dec, 2008 – 10:09 | 2 Comments
Frenzy in the ball pool

This T shirt design from Chris Lanyon speaks for itself.

6 colour T shirt print, index separation
Friday, 31 Oct, 2008 – 18:08 | 8 Comments
6 colour T shirt print, index separation

This T shirt design does not appear to contain a great number of colours, but we found it required six colours to make the job work well. We used index separations at 200dpi and took …

New T shirts and Hoodies from the Rebus Collective
Wednesday, 15 Oct, 2008 – 18:35 | One Comment
New T shirts and Hoodies from the Rebus Collective

“The Number One Cornish clothing label” The Rebus Collective release new Screen printed T shirts and Hoodies. Rebus love their Graffiti, Hip Hop and street clothing. This collective of DJ’s, artists and writers are responsible …

Need a logo designer? Or just advice?
Wednesday, 8 Oct, 2008 – 21:00 | 11 Comments
Need a logo designer? Or just advice?

When you walk down the street it is easy to spot and recognize a good logo

Back to screen printing hoodies
Monday, 22 Sep, 2008 – 20:37 | 5 Comments
Back to screen printing hoodies

Well it seems that is it for the summer, and it has been confirmed for us in a switch to printing hoodies.

And while we at Advertees are busy using our gold waterbased inks to print …