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Screen Printing foil on T-shirts
Thursday, 15 Apr, 2010 – 20:39 | No Comment
Screen Printing foil on T-shirts

Advertees will finally introduce foil to the range of screen printing techniques on offer, just a few more trial runs using different screen meshes and pressing times and we are good to go. This is …

Discharge T shirt print using index separations
Thursday, 2 Jul, 2009 – 19:43 | No Comment
Discharge T shirt print using index separations

Index separations are very fast to create and very effective with some designs, the T-shirt design below is a good example of the kind of design which works well using this process. We chose to …

Text only T shirt designs
Saturday, 27 Jun, 2009 – 18:40 | No Comment
Text only T shirt designs

Designing a T shirt using text only requires more skill than many might think, if aesthetics are important to you then there are plenty of things you need to consider, one of the most important …

Butt or Trap? Spot colours.
Monday, 27 Apr, 2009 – 17:36 | 4 Comments
Butt or Trap? Spot colours.

This is first thing we think about when separating your design for screen printing.

Butt or trap registration? What are they?

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 …

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 …

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 …

Design and typography for screen printing
Wednesday, 10 Sep, 2008 – 9:50 | One Comment
Design and typography for screen printing

For the use of screen printing, it’s a general rule that – design wise – boldness and simplicity work. You’re usually trying to convey a message quickly and clearly on your T shirt.
The same goes …

5 colour index separation and waterbased ink
Sunday, 7 Sep, 2008 – 18:57 | 3 Comments
5 colour index separation and waterbased ink

Although indexing is not recommended for a subtle gradient, it does eliminate the problem of moire