What Are Screen Printing Files?Screen printing technology is a rapidly growing entity which requires special considerations especially when developing your artwork. It is highly essential that you spare no effort at all to become familiar with it's strengths and limitations before completing your design. Screen printing is a complex field so it isn't possible or remotely realistic to expect profits overnight. Let's learn some of the right tricks relating to Screen Printing Files. Screen printers typically inherit files designed for projects ranging from Web-page building to offset printing. But we hardly ever get to see files prepared specifically for our process. So what follows next is that we're forced to compromise on screen printing files, adjusting the file to get the job out on time while maintaining a reasonable quality. The competitive levels in the arena of screen printing are practically soaring sky high. This is also due to which a growing majority of customers show intolerance to such compromises. The universal truth is that customers expect us to maintain the quality of the design. At the same time, at our end, we are troubled by the need to drive up the sales figures despite the awareness that our sales guys fail often to understand the nuances of digital art for screen printing. Whether we inherit or create a digital file is immaterial. In either case, we must optimize the file for production and prepare it quickly and accurately. In today's production environment, speed is the top currency, beating everything else to the door. The stress on production efficiency and fast turnaround has its roots in the ever-increasing speed of computers. It seems like just yesterday when a 100-MHz processor was considered too ahead of times. Current market predictions, by the year 2000, is we will be using desktop computers with processing speeds in excess of 800 MHz. Remember, with faster processors comes software that turns inexplicably complex and difficult to understand. Again, this is because of the fact that our customers developed the expectation that with all this hardware and software power at our disposal, we should be able to turn a job around almost instantly. Don't we all wish miracles would rain over deserts everyday but it never really happens, does it? The fact is that speed is a magic word when it comes to screen printing files. Let's just cover some situations in which files often fall short such as improper placement of graphic elements or trapping, which make it necessary to rework a file extensively images of the wrong resolution for the needed print size color-separation decisions or no relevant bearing on how we use process color in screen printing choices for proofing the digital image. While this list may seem extensive, let's continue to research on how to improve the quality of the screen printing files we work with in order to boost the overall efficiency and accuracy of the process. |