September 23, 2025
Color blending in screen printing is one of the most visually striking techniques available — and one of the most technically demanding to execute consistently. A perfectly blended gradient across a chest print requires precise ink selection, mesh choice, and color separation skill.
May 29, 2024
Mesh selection is one of the most consequential decisions in screen printing — and one of the most frequently made by habit rather than by calculation. Printers who use "whatever mesh they have" are leaving print quality on the table.
July 22, 2024
Image resolution and halftone output control are the technical foundation of everything that happens between the original artwork and the final print. Get these right and your separations will expose cleanly, hold detail, and reproduce accurately on press.
November 14, 2024
The white underbase is the most important single color in dark garment screen printing. It determines everything that happens on top of it: color accuracy, opacity, vibrancy, hand feel, and print durability.
April 3, 2024
Every screen printing job starts with a digital file. What arrives in the prepress department determines — more than any other single factor — the quality of the final print. A well-prepared file saves time, reduces waste, and delivers better results.
February 17, 2025
Simulated color separation is the most versatile and widely used method for reproducing photographic and multi-color artwork in screen printing. It is the technique that makes photographic t-shirt prints possible on any press, on any garment color.
May 6, 2025
Flesh tones are the most demanding test of any color separation system. The human eye has evolved to be extraordinarily sensitive to skin color — we instantly detect even slight shifts in hue, saturation, or value.
December 30, 2024
Screen printing with photographic images and gradients means working with halftones — and halftones introduce three challenges that every serious printer must understand: dot gain, moiré patterns, and halftone frequency selection.
February 11, 2024
Screen printing is one of the oldest and most durable printing methods still in active use today. From custom t-shirts to fine art prints, from industrial signage to fashion garments — understanding the fundamentals separates good printers from great ones.
October 8, 2024
Index color separation is one of the most powerful — and most misunderstood — techniques in screen printing. It solves problems that CMYK halftone process printing cannot: it eliminates moiré, works on any garment color, and delivers sharp, vibrant results.