I guess this is a question about printing anything flat, or not apparel. I'm looking in to printing vinyl stickers and paper posters. Do you need to have a vacuum pallet for this or is there another way to print these items? I saw the Catspit video on printing the vinyl yard signs, but those are muc...

I can sure try, Greg. Basically, because I'm not wanting the inks to actually mix on the shirt, they don't need to overlap each other. If I had left the image like it was, I would've put down a lot more ink than was truly necessary. In some spots, say the logo at the top, the yellow was underneath t...

After it was all done, I had shirts that ended up being 4 colors on the front, with no underbase, and 2 colors on the back. Overall, I'm really happy with the way they turned out. I think the backs of the shirts are a little ink heavy. I wish I would've set my off contact down a bit more to print a ...

On this job, we decided to order custom Pantone matched quarts. We were on a bit of a time crunch and thought this would be easier. We ended up having to "edit" these inks a bit by adding black to them. If you're going to order custom ink, I would highly recommend getting a coated Pantone ...

I used a bit of spray tack on the pallet and put my shirt on. I always like to test print on the pallet that I set my off contact on. It takes out another variable. The settings should translate to the other pallets, but for now I want to make sure I have it set up correctly and to register the job ...

Because my image took up nearly all of my pallet, I quickly drew a center vertical line on the pallet and that's it. I didn't need any horizontal lines because it would reach from top to bottom. I started with my underbase screen and placed it on the press. I lined it up to my vertical line, zeroed ...

I coated the screens using a 1/1 method with the Saati PV emulsion. I started with the 160 mesh underbase layer as I knew this would be the hardest to get the halftones to hold. I always take a blank screen to my press with a film and measure where on the screen it should sit. With these images I'm ...

I could have talked about this in the section about separations, but I did it here because it relates to mesh count. When I halftoned the image, I looked at what screens I was going to use and then halftoned it with that information in mind. The red and orange layers had the most halftones, so I dec...

I put on three square registration marks at the top, typed in what color was what on each layer, and printed them on to 13"x 18" film. I do have halftones in this image but because they are used just for gradients and its not a 4 color process, I didn't worry about the halftone angles and ...

The artwork was done by an artist from the Philippines. He did the artwork in layers by color, so it was mostly separated when I got it. When I received the artwork, it was 4 colors: red, orange, yellow, and gray. He also had a 5th layer than was a black outline to trap the colors. We were printing ...