IMPRINTER Quick Art Preparation for your first screen. Imprinter supply print ready screens to printers everywhere and all our kits come with their first screens ‘exposed’ - ready to print. Whatever your style - lets’ get it on screen. Follow these 4 steps and you’ll get exactly what you need. No1. Prepare your art inside a 30 x 40cm image area. No2. Prepare your art as one colour black and save as a pdf. No3. Pick your screen type (Mesh) from our easy pick chart. No4. Save file as your name and email to - hello@imprinter.com.au HOW TO MAKE YOUR ART Create your art in Photoshop, Illustrator, Paint, Canva or whatever. Using a document size of 30cm x 40cm AUS or 11.81” x 15.75” for U.S. And email us that file as a pdf - we do the rest. Alternatively you can illustrate directly on clear film (acetate) with a black marker. Making sure that your image is solid enough to block out light. See the ‘Make Art and Film’ Instruction book here for a great example. I personally like to draw on paper - photograph it and then clean it up in Photoshop! I then export as a pdf and send that out to make film. Send us your art in black. You choose the colour of your print with your inks when you are printing. We need your design in black to create your film and screen but are essentially creating an open colourway (in the shape of your art) where you can use any colour ink in your screen to print with. Save your black and white art, in a 30cm x 40cm document as a PDF - Save as your name so we can match it with your order - Choose and tell us your screen mesh to suit your outcome (next page) - Email it to us at hello@imprinter.com.au That’s it, Imprinter produces your film and exposes your screen with your design. Pick Up or Delivery. * If you’d like to explore your page / art layout more - go to the back page. CHOOSING YOUR SCREEN O ur screen choices are easy. There are 2 things to take into account - What you are printing onto and the nature of your design W e have 3 mesh counts - 43T, 62T and 90T. To understand the technical terminology when you see a number like 43T - it means 43 strands of silk / polyester per centimeter. 43T Definately a fabric screen, a 43 will hold great detail and is great for bold designs, large shapes and printing thicker inks like white Supercover inks onto black / dark T-shirts. 62T A higher mesh count and our most versatile screen. Definately a textile screen known for extra detail and the go to screen if you want to print halftones and very fine lines but will also do a light supercover ink onto a dark fabric while being fine enough to print paper in a pinch. 90T Our go to high detail screen for paper, cardboard posters. Definately not a fabric screen but great for posters, business cards or whatever paper you can dream up. L to R :- Black on white t-shirt back print - loads of detail White print on a black t-shirt - think of this as 100% size you can easily print LHS Breast 10cm wide L to R :- Extreme halftone (Suggested finest detail is 33 - 45dpi (Photoshop)). Red print on a white t-shirt - think of this as your 30cm wide backprint. L to R :- Charcoal gray on silver A3 card Exagerated black halftone on white postcards. LAYOUTS AND MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR PRINT AREA Basic Layout In your 30cm x 40cm file you want to be centred and towards one end. This is usually to match where you want to print on the shirt. A Classic Small Biz / Band Merch / Pub / Coffee Shop Layout As per the image to the left this is your typical use of a screen for a typical ‘front left hand side breast and a large back print. Looks weird right, as one end is upside down. We do this for positioning on the T-shirt and we turn the screen around for which piece we want to print. This way you tape over the image you are not using ... hence it’s good to have a good 2cm / 1 inch gap to make things comfortable. You can download a template here > www.imprinter.com.au Front or back Front Left Hand Side Breast Back of staff shirt / front of merch