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  • Certification Program For Graphic Artists

    Certification Program For Graphic Artists

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    When owners and managers of screen printing firms have a job opening in their art department, they often have difficulty finding qualified applicants. Entry level graphic artists typically do not have the specific graphics art training that is required for screen printing. To fill this need, American Screen Printing Association has developed the Certified Graphic Artist—Screen Printing (CGA-SP) certification program. It is modeled after ASPA’s successful Certified Screen Printer (CSP) program.

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  • Inverting Artwork (For Single Color or Grayscale Photo Prints)

    Inverting Artwork (For Single Color or Grayscale Photo Prints)

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    More often than not, a customer will supply you with artwork that depicts the image exactly as they want it to be printed on the shirt. That is, a white (or other colored) image on a black background. Keep in mind that we are talking about strictly a one color (or grayscale photo) print on a black shirt. To convert an image like this into a camera ready film positive is very easy.

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  • How to Use Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Use Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator

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    Author: Creativeshooter Adobe Illustrator, the most popular software for creating vector art has an excellent feature to turn raster bitmaps into vector art. Live Trace is an easy and flexible feature to convert bitmaps to vectors. I use Adobe Illustrator [...]

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  • Creating a Film Positive – Vellum Paper vs. Inkjet Film

    Creating a Film Positive – Vellum Paper vs. Inkjet Film

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    What’s the best media for screen printers to use for creating film positives? It comes down to a matter of cost, time, and availability. There are a few other issues worth noting and we’ll discuss them here as well.

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  • Creating T-Shirt Art for Screen Printing with Inkscape

    Creating T-Shirt Art for Screen Printing with Inkscape

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    The vector drawing program Inkscape is a totally free graphics program that can be used for creating great t-shirt art. In case you’re not familiar with it, Inkscape is an open source, graphics design program. It is similar to CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator, however it is completely free and you’ll never have to spend a nickel for any updates! Being a vector drawing program, Inkscape is loaded with tools that lets you create images that are smooth and scalable. Vector art is the ideal type of art for screen printers and Inkscape is made just for that purpose.

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  • How to Print Halftones on the Cheap

    How to Print Halftones on the Cheap

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    If you’re a low budget screen printer and the need to screen print a photographic image comes up, is there anything you can do without making a huge investment in software and specialized hardware? The answer is yes.

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  • Free Software for the Screen Printer

    Free Software for the Screen Printer

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    Computer graphics software, clip art, and fonts are an essential part of a t-shirt printing business. Even if your customers supply you with the artwork that you will print, you must still have the proper programs to view, adjust, and print the electronic art files.

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  • ASPA Art Templates

    ASPA Art Templates

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    ASPA Art Division has created a series of easy to customize Art Templates that can be used by T-shirt printers, sign makers, ad specialty firms, and more.

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  • The One Graphics Website You Must Visit

    The One Graphics Website You Must Visit

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    Here is a website that we came across that should have something for everyone who is interested in graphic arts.

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  • Halftone Printing — Without Postscript or RIP!

    Halftone Printing — Without Postscript or RIP!

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    In case you are unfamiliar with halftone printing, to be able to screen print photographic or grayscale images, an image must be converted into what is known as “halftones.” A halftone image consists of

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