Printing a tapered cylinder

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Printing a tapered cylinder

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My company prints a variety of cylindrical glass, plastic and metal containers. I have my first tapered bottle to print, but can't seem to find any concrete information for manipulating the artwork to accommodate for the taper. Does anyone have any information they can share with me?
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Re: Printing a tapered cylinder

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What effect are you after?
Do you need to alter the dimensions of your print or do you just need a different shaped text/image box?
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I'm not sure what you are referring to. I am screen printing on a tapered glass bottle. The bottle rotates, the screen moves from side to side and the squeegee is stationary. The circumference of the bottle is 3/4 small on the bottom than the top. Therefore the distance the squeegee contacts the bottle is shorter at the bottom.
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Re: Printing a tapered cylinder

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You need a curved parallelogram!
Wrap a piece of paper around your bottle, sketch out the design then look at the result.
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Would that be the same as laying out the parallelogram on my screen (9" the smaller circumference and 9.75 the larger) then warping the design to fit inside?
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Re: Printing a tapered cylinder

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Probably :D
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