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Screen Printing Designs for T-Shirts: An Artwork Guide for Brand, Event and Merch Managers (Video)

This 60-second video sums up the buying guide. The full article covers the details and sources.

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Video transcript

  1. 0:00Good art can still fail on press. Brief the press first.
  2. 0:05Every ink colour is a screen; dark shirts usually add an underbase. Set a colour budget: knock out to the shirt, use halftone tints, skip drop shadows and glows.
  3. 0:16Mesh isn't a monitor. Thin lines fill in, gradients become coarse dots. Build in vector, outline fonts, and check at actual print size.
  4. 0:27Preview each colourway on its real shirt. Break up heavy solids. One print usually serves every size, so check smallest and largest; measure down from the collar seam.
  5. 0:38Then package files: one per location at print size, named spot colours with PMS codes, a mockup per shirt colour. Approve each screen, not the composite.
  6. 0:50Keep colours, locations and art sizes identical for reorders.
  7. 0:55Send your artwork for a quote or a second opinion.

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