Great video, Thanks. One thing I just learned is that if you want your registration marks to print on all layers then you must set the color to registration, its the little swatch that looks like a registration mark. I was pulling my hair out on this one so hopefully this helps someone.
Hi I just saw this video, I've been screen printing for twenty plus years and I just wanted to let you know I worked at some shops where we use illustrator to output our film without rip software, saving art as png bitmap 55 line 22.5-25 angle elipse or dot as per customer, then import the file in a separation template centered and then select the art and then use fill color registration black, that makes all the ink channels in the ink jet printer to print 100 percent. Works great. The shop where I'm at now uses a rip, and only prints the opaque black and all cleaning fluid in the other ink channels, to keep it easy to clean the head when it clogs with regular head cleaning.
Awesome. This is what I needed. I currently live in Mexico, and I had someone "show" me how to do this, but I was completely lost due to the fact that he was using CorelDraw and explaining it in Spanish and my Spanish isn't that good. Big thank you.
I am so glad I found your videos! I was just about to buy AcuRip, and now you saved me some serious cash. I knew there had to be a way to do all this, and I am new to screening printing, but old school graphic designer so it makes sense. All it will cost me is a little time. And at this point, I have that!
Great video. Worked like a champ. I use an Epson 7720 without rip. I am new to ScreenPrinting but I was tired of making layers black. Use this with an old (2008) version of Photoshop I had in a box. Thank you for this video.
This is what I needed. I have the same printer and it's hard to find rip software that is compatible for it. When I have it's been pretty expensive. Cheers
Can you do a video on how to print transparencies at Staples or a Fedex for beginners like me and how to setup the document type so it's dark. Would really appreciate it, Love the videos!!
I can't wait to go to work tomorrow and try this, i had a bootleg version of accurip that went haywire and there's no way im paying 600 bucks for the real software lol thanks bro
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Where did Ghostscript come into the picture for the halftones. I use Ghostscript and GSview to print from AI and I don't have to halftone the gradients in Photoshop (a GS ps file is made for all the colors with reg marks and only that colors name on film). Just not sure why you would need rip Ghostscript in his workflow if you are only going to do the halftones yourself. Maybe there is a benefit he sees in this workflow, dunno.
Omg. This is amazing. I just started screen printing, and this is a game changer for me. What do you do when this is on a dark shirt though? Underbase layer?
just switched to adobe. familar with PS, learning Ai. nice video. however when i go to print (4min into video) it shows my process colors there. does this just mean there are still CMYK objects in my file? is this an issue if it doesnt affect the separations outcome of my spot colors? thanks
I just want to print a one color shirt print, the art is bold dark n9 shadows or different colors and want the transparent film print as dark as possible
How would you do the separations prior to that. Like if customer supplied artwork high resolution png and you want to rip with to halftones and having perfect dot, not pixelated dots
Hi there, thank you so much for your video, super helpful :) I wanted to ask you, I have a hp laser jet for making films, not inkjet, is it still better to use ghostscript on a mac, doing the separations in illustrator instead of just doing the separations on photoshop, and then applying the halftone? Confused if I still need to install / use ghostscript, If I have an HP COLOR LASERJET printer.
Thank you for sharing. i have a question. does it matter the version of illustrator? i ask because when i send to print it only shows my process colors. none of the color separated colors .
What transparency paper do you use? I find when I use my acetate paper it just prints too much ink that runs everywhere. Any tips or the paper you use. Thanks
Replacing old laptop. Would you please give necessary requirements to run the programs you use ? Ram, cpu, ssd, that stuff. Hard to sift thru all the info out there. Any advice will be appreciated. Staying under $1k for a PC. Thank you
Hey, Sorry for what probably is a dumb question but I'm new to screen printing. I'm doing my first design with no gradient or halftones. I am using spot color where one area is all one area. Is this needed for basic spot color designs or is for the more complex designs. Thanks and great video!
Does this create a faded color issue when printing? I imagine if the halftones of two different colors don’t line up correctly it would create space where the shirt is exposed. For example the green and yellow blend. The green halftones would need to print exactly where the yellow halftones are not. What’s preventing photoshop from producing halftones that are just sitting on top of one another? Hopefully this question makes sense 😅
hey man i'm using the same printer pixma ix6820. Do you know how to make the printer pull black ink from the bigger 250BK cartridge instead of the smaller 251B
Im not entirely sure but I think it pulls from there when it thinks it's printing only text. If there's a way to trick it into thinking it's printing text maybe?
There is a color swatch in illustrator called registration (it looks like a little target) that will show up on every layer. Anything with that color applied to it shows up on every film
@@StartScreenPrintingNowTV thank you for your answer. I'm asking because I don't know what to do about hat either and I thought you where going to talk about that haha. No worries. Thank you so much for this video this is really awesome and helping a lot. Keep going !
NO. This is not the way you use GS. Export your file in .eps and open with Corel Draw, then select GS and spot process (Select the DPI and the angle), then save the files in .ps and open it with GSView, then print in your regular printer. GS will make the halftones as a RIP Printer emulator.
The idea is to separate the colors for screen printing each color individually to arrive at the original image. Doing it that way you won't be separating all of the colors.
hi my friend; this is perfect share thanks , i installed cute pdf and gost script , when i click the write button the cutepdf dialog box don't come to save as a pdf, only popup a dialog( cutePDF Writer must be used with PS2PDF converter.) and i instaled that but nothing change. Do you know why ?
@@DanteNava correct, I followed all his steps except for one... I converted the image into a black spot color, that was my 1st step. I'll post the link in just a bit. you'll see it will make a significant difference.
Ok my friend, you have a bit of confusion of concepts ... First of all, you can save your artwork as * .PS (Postscript) directly from Illustrator (with all output configurations ready, lpi, angles, etc.) Now that you have INSTALLED GHOSTSCRIPT (the PostScript interpreter) you need to install "GHOSTVIEW" (A Viewer to view PS from Ghostscript) Once you open the Illustrator PostScript file in GHOSTVIEW, you will see all the plates like the ones you see in Photoshop . I mean a beautiful gradient and NO HALF TONE. ....! Relax, the Half tone is there "under the hood", all you have to do is save the entire document in PDF from Ghostview ... and you can see the CRISPY AND CLEAN HALF TONE ...! .... obviously you can print directly from GHOSTVIEW and you will get a positive print of half tone... Finally the Ghostscript+Ghostview together ARE THE R I P SOFTWARE... : )
Hi Adam. I actually played around with ghostview a while back and wasn't able to get it to work. Maybe it's because I didn't realize it provided those halftones under the hood like you mentioned. This is a good tip. Thank you
im trying to understand all this. whats the point of using gs and gsview if youre already doing the halftones and using ai and ps? why not just make the halftones manually in ps?
