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Toro

Toro

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I wanna make a few shirts myself, so I was just wondering, I know it's probably different at every spot but, how can you get your image printed on a shirt? Like I don't mean me print out a picture then have it steamed onto a shirt, I was wondering how you can do it with your file. Do the people at the shops allow that? What file type they they use? PDF?
 
CHAPO GUZMAN

CHAPO GUZMAN

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it varies on the requirements by shop.. but usually its .ai,tiff, jpeg, eps, pdf, psd @ 300dpi (dots per inch) the only person i know on these forums that does shirt printing is lady tragik

forgot the website but hit her up, prices are cheap too.
 
LadyTragik

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so if you're looking to get it silk-screened you'd want to have your file seperated (.ai, .pdf, .psd) - color seperations in layers, so if you have 4 solid colors in your design you'd have a layer for each one, or sometimes people only have a .jpg so for an additional small price we do the color seperations ourselves. But since you know about graphic design it saves you money if you do it - that way we print each layer and make a screen for each color

now if you're doing lets say a photo or something that has hella diff colors, then what we would do is a cymk process and we seperate using alpha layers

if its a b&w photo with lots of details/shading..we'd just print it out as halftone and silk-screen it that way
 
KillaKali

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I wish i had received the info ^above as easy as you did haha.. but yeah, if it's silk screen, just 300dpi and should be a illustrator file or whichever your printing shop prefers & you good to go.
 
tosin

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LadyTragik said:
so if you're looking to get it silk-screened you'd want to have your file seperated (.ai, .pdf, .psd) - color seperations in layers, so if you have 4 solid colors in your design you'd have a layer for each one, or sometimes people only have a .jpg so for an additional small price we do the color seperations ourselves. But since you know about graphic design it saves you money if you do it - that way we print each layer and make a screen for each color

now if you're doing lets say a photo or something that has hella diff colors, then what we would do is a cymk process and we seperate using alpha layers

if its a b&w photo with lots of details/shading..we'd just print it out as halftone and silk-screen it that way
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you wouldnt happen to have examples of each...like the artwork of each you mentioned and after they were printed on shirts?
 
MALKI

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i dont know shit but my patna got a t-shirt making place in the town that be juggin them. i think if u want anything its gonna start at $40 just to do the screen
 
MALKI

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shit its on webster and 15th or around there dude from the real world "malik" works over there i dont know what the place is called

anyway my patna be down there makin em he told me u cant get no less than 40 a screen? he said thats anywhere u go. or maybe hes getting over... if he is im going bad


ok just cheked its called People's Choice Printing and i guess malik owns it i thought it was mexican dude who owns it.
 
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