Tips For Creating Spot Color Film Positives Without RIP

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Tips For Creating Spot Color Film Positives Without RIP

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Screen Printing Tee Shirts: How To Create The Best Spot Color Film Positives

This new and improved video is packed with more detailed info on how we would do this in a more professional manner. Here you will learn about different types of film positives, printing without RIP software for spot colors and color rich blacks. This tutorial video brings you from computer to printed film positive with tips for the beginner as well as the experienced screen printer. When we deal with basic spot color art we can do a few things in order to make the standard Epson inkjet printer with all color inks print a much better film positive. This is for when we do not use RIP software and print directly from our vector software to the inkjet printer. With the tips I share in this video you will be making the absolute best film positives without RIP and without all black ink systems of any kind.



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Inkjet printer: http://catspitscreenprintsupply.com/eps ... inter-new/

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Printing 1 color halftones with art and film positives:
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