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Hey guys,
ive been working with "518 Prints"
a screen printing place that works with a lot
of bands such as; Acacia Strain, Emmure, IWABO, and many others.
"518" is obviously my area code if you were wondering.

My question is this:

What size and resolution should your art be saved in
for the screen printers to work with it easier?
The guys from the screen printing place says

"300 DPI at print size. 13 x18"

how would i save my art as that on Photoshop, or "convert" it?

and one more quick thing, How should i give them the raw art?
yeah, i have it all on templates already and rarin' to go,
but when you give them the raw art should it just be the design on a white background, transparent background?

feel free to answer any of these questions

any help would be appreciated.
thankyou

  • Denimous Snake said about 11 months ago

    1. Image, image size, image resolution, 300 DPI. You should always operate in 300DPI, I don't load anything or start anything outside of that resolution.

    2. I usually save it as a layered (by color) PSD or PDF on a transparent background.

    Hope this helps.

  • Matt Borchert said about 11 months ago

    300 DPI is what is considered the standard high quality resolution to work at. There are reasons to sometimes work much higher than that, but it will work for 99% of apparel printing. When you start a new document in photoshop it always asks what the resolution and size will be.

    When they say 13" x 18" for art I'm assuming it's for two reasons. #1 because the vast majority of their screens can fit artwork that size, and #2 because the majority of shirt blanks will be able to be printed on at that scale.

    The design on a white background or transparent background makes no difference, they will separate it all into black and white color layers anyways. If you want to save them a bit of hassle and reduce the risk of things being printed incorrectly, separate your artwork into layers based on colors (ie...black...white....red (call out PMS 485c or whatever it may be if you have a pantone book) and name them clearly what they are. Working on files with 50 layers with colors overlapping sucks.

  • DasKush said about 11 months ago

    Thanks guys,
    yeah sorry for all the questions
    Its just the life of apparel creation is difficult
    which i'm sure you all know that.

    Thanks for all the detail.

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