Frequent accidents between designers and printers caused the parties to be unhappy due to unclear division of responsibilities. The production department believes that as long as the designers change the product design, they can print better. The designer can not understand what kind of image the printing process needs to match because he has not received screen printing training. Therefore, designers should be encouraged to go to the production site and look at the printing process of the entire job.
1. Responsible for printing orders
Designers should understand the printing color sequence, the number of screens, and the number of exposure steps. They should work as much as possible in the platemaking, ink, and printing production departments.
2. Learn from the sample
Designers should learn color configuration techniques and precautions more often from samples.
3. Determine the correct printing sequence
When printing light-colored clothing, the printing color sequence is from light to dark, or the ink volume is from small to large, because the ink will stick to the back of the screen. When printing dark clothes, usually a layer of white paint is applied and various colors are printed on it. This layer of white must be photocured. The typical printing sequence is from light to dark, and any large area of ​​the main color is the final print.
4. Screen selection
Simple designs generally use 45 lines per cm of wire mesh. More complex work, screen up to 77T. If it is a finer mesh reconstructing part, 90-120 mesh screen can be used.
5. The uniqueness of garment printing
Although the images are still printed with ink, most of the jobs are spot-color printing. For example, on black clothing, without using CMYK primary ink, the background color will become very dark, and the standard spot color ink will be used to print on the white background of the screening. The effect of "simulation" or "simulation" of the three primary colors can be achieved.
6. Design screen display and actual effect
The image you see on the monitor is not what you can get. If there is a 20% density area in the image and it is converted into a 20% dot, the dots will be expanded to 40% of the original size, so that the dots below 30% of the clothing will be lost, 70% of the The outlets may be printed on site (100%). Therefore, there must be room for a large number of outlets to expand when separating colors.
7. The printing process cannot be relaxed
After seeing proofs, fine adjustments to two or three colors mean that two or three plates must be re-created. This requires new screens on the press, repositioning and test printing.
8. Increase common language
Some designers complain that “red†is not bright enough on black fabrics, and that the production staff needs to use slower squeegee speeds, use lower mesh screens, change the squeegee angle, or use opaque white primaries. The background is brighter, so that the printed red light is brighter. Therefore, designers need to communicate more with the printing workers and understand the production process.