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T-shirt Screen Printing - How does it work? Part 2

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

T-shirt screen printing, as discussed in Part 1, has been around for a long time and continues to be the most effective form of t-shirt decoration.In Part 1 we had a look at the basic equipment used to screen print t-shirts. In part 2 we will begin to discuss the different processes involved in getting a concept from the imagination onto a t-shirt. (more…)

T-shirt Screen Printing - How does it work? Part 1

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

T-shirt screen printing has stood the test of time as a viable non-digital print solution. While evrything is going digital, the process of screen printing has stayed the same for many, many years but in saying that, at the most professional level, it is an extremely technical and intricate process with very little margin for error. And while the process hasn’t changed too much the technology used in the consumables ie Inks etc. has opened new ways of achieving specialised finishes with much less work.

So how does screen printing work? (more…)

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What is the difference between a bitmap and a vector file?

Bitmaps (also called "raster") are made up of pixels, while vector images are composed of mathematical formulas that consist of curves and points. As such, they can be resized at will without losing quality. Making a bitmap larger makes the pixels larger too and the result can be blurry and jagged. Photos are bitmap images, and so are file formats like bmp, jpg, and psd.

Vector images have crisp lines and can be resized as big as a house without losing any image quality. Vector images are created in programs like Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand and Corel Draw.

Why do you require vector images?

Vector images are made out of lines and shapes. This helps us when we need to separate colours. Each shape that has the same colour is separated from the image. This can’t effectively be done with a bitmap image when printing with spot colours.

One time when it is ok to use bitmap images is when you want a full colour print using process CMYK colours. Sometimes bitmap images are ok for single colour prints as long as they are at least 300dpi and already at print size.