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screen printing detail

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:43 am
by dan123
Hi, I am a graphic designer and have never done any screen printing myself before. I got the Speedball "ultimate screen printing kit" for Christmas and am planning to use it on a piece I'm designing right now. I've got some pretty fine line work as well as some things that might require some fairly close registration. (See attached for a screen cap of the in progress artwork. Actual dimensions are 4.5" x 5.5") The thinnest strokes are .75 pts (in Illustrator). I am planning to screen print the final design on a blue box with dark blue and gold inks. I'm guessing I'll have to rig some things up to screen print on a box and to get close registration... does anyone see any other problems (or impossibilities) with this? Is my line work too thin?

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Danny

Re: screen printing detail

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:31 am
by tompaine
0.75pt is pretty huge, you need to learn to trap - give your gold a stroke of (say) 1pt and set it to overprint in attributes, you won't need to butt-fit.

Re: screen printing detail

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:47 am
by Shenandoah Designs
My older version of Illustrator will put strokes a lot smaller. I've put strokes of 0.05 on things before.