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Artwork Design Tips for Screen Printing - Screen print technology requires special considerations when developing your artwork. You will want to become familiar with it's strengths and limitations before completing your design. The information here is intended to help you understand the basic requirements of "screenable" art. The quality of your end product is limited by your original art work.
CD Printing - It is screen printing that puts the picture on the surface of the CD.
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Graphics on the Go - New films for transit ads
How To Burn An Image Into A Silk Screen - The most frequently asked question. Now an online tutorial.
How to Expose Photo Emulsion for Silk Screen Printing - When you have a coated screen ready to go, use the best source of light to expose your screen - the sun!
How to Make Hand-Drawn Positives for Multiple-Color Silk Screen Printing - You can think in all the colors of the rainbow - and you can print in all the colors of the rainbow. But you still have to draw in black and white! In other words, it's the ink you use to print the image that determines the color - the art is still created in black and white. Here's how to layer transparencies to achieve multicolor art.
Learn How to Silkscreen - Dozens of photos showing how to make silk-screen t-shirts using Package #1.
Learn How to Prepare Artwork For A Multi-color T-shirt - Tutorial on how to create custom artwork on your computer.
Mirror Image - Because screen printing is a rather specialized medium, we have prepared a tutorial for those that may be purchasing screen printing for the first time, or are just interested in the process
Preparing Digital Files for Screen Printing - Making other types of artwork fit the screen printing mold
Screen Process Printing - Silk screen printers.
Silk-Screening - Silk-screen printing is widely used today for a large array of display materials where the final print run is not large. It is also suitable for large posters and sheets that would be impractical to run on a traditional offset press and for a wide variety of large, thick or heavy materials. At CJPW we have used this process for small-run signs and posters.
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