Designing for Screenprinting (5 Common Mistakes)

If you have been screen printing for a little while then you know what it's like to get artwork that is not setup correctly. It's a huge bummer and takes a ton of time to fix. If you are a designer for screen printing then you should watch this to avoid these mistakes! The screen printer in your life will thank you. Cory is constantly having to fix artwork in the studio so he put together this list of the 5 most common mistakes we see and how to fix/avoid them in the future.

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[DanielBlueYT]

I work at Nike, great how you mentioned being creative with the clients request. No is never an answer.
Creativity is 🥶

[peoplecallmepeechez]

being a screen printer for quite a few years already and having an associates degree in graphic design I already knew a lot about these but its always nice to remind yourself what to avoid and maybe learn a new solution that I haven't tried before.

[maxwellreinbachs]

Good tips man, I liked how you showed us your presets for your image tracing that’s super useful!

[certainfrequencies]

one of the top 5 staches i've ever seen

[orlwal]

this guy is awesome!!! can you do a part 2? can always use some tips on preparing artwork inside Adobe Illustrator

[Codeman]

Great advice! I am a self taught graphic designer all within the last year and have taken on a part time job at a screen printing shop doing their artwork. Would love to see more videos on just preparing stuff for printing! How to properly set it up on templates and what resolution it should be when printing it. We use Exile Rip and have a Spyder Machine for burning our screens. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[justathought]

Thank you. This is brushing me up on illustrator and I’m getting an idea of how to work with procreate 🙏🏼

[PrintKingdom]

did you guys already make a video explaining how to turn only certain elements of the design to half tones?

[boldlinedesignllc]

I'm a big fan of using Vectorstyler over Illustrator

[miguelsemidei]

75% of our clients bring 72dpi images . And argue when we charge them for creating the artwork because they already brought it …

[AC-sfrr]

Another way would've been to use 'image trace > make and expand' on the leaf

[timdesignsincolorado]

Good Call on the Clipping Mask! That's why I like Opacity masks; when you go to print, you can choose if you want an overprint or not. And than you for the last tip, people do it ALL THE TIME with PDFs

[francescopenasa]

Thanx for advice! But I don't think expanding the text is always the right choice. In the case of logos or large texts there are no problems, in the case of body text or small texts, some features that the fonts have natively to be more readable in small dimensions (hinting) would be lost.

[dirtypaws]

thx for the tipps :) they are helping alot

[isaiahlucero]

- What is the best one to start off with

[mudassirkhalid]

Please make a video for offset printing how to prepare artwork for offset printing I am searching many times but there is no proper and complete video of offset printing i want to learn A to Z of screen printing please make it I am your big fan. Love from Pakistan

[johnseber]

Also is there a way to do regular/ halftone image inside letter.

[cd]

In one of your videos you done a t-shirt design using procreate which does not export using vector. How would you suggest you get artwork converted from pixel to vector in this instance?

[francescascholz]

I’m totally new to this sort of thing.

I use procreate though to design things, is there a way to download it from procreate and turn it into a vector in a different software or do I always need to do that tracing method you showed?

[johnseber]

Say you want a red circle with a anchor in the middle, but using the shirt color and the anchor color how do you cut anchor into the shirt