Ty Meier art@screenprintprepress.com (510) 780-6693
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Greetings screenprinters!

Your client gives you rough files or scans to turn into t-shirts: Screenprintprepress.com is your resource to make those files film-ready.

To get started pre-pressing a file for film, click here.

Sampling of services offered:

Every screenprinter recieves maddening cllient artwork on a daily basis. Producing film from artwork that contains low-rez images, strange fonts, difficult gradients and tangled vectors can be a time-killing nightmare. Worse yet is beautiful artwork created by "expert" graphic designers who don't know anything about screenprinting. ScreenPrintPrePress.com lovingly separates out the colors for you.

Logo re-creation:
The first and most normal of client art problems is the logo.  They say "Get it from the web-page" but  it's at the top of the web page, very small, at 72 ppi.  You ask the client to find the original artwork but they can't. This problem is so common that we vectorize and recreate logos almost every day.

Tracing Images to Vectors: 
You've got a scan of what the client wants, but it's not auto tracing in Photoshop or Illustrator very well and you really don't have time to deal with it. We vectorize images quickly and accurately.

Converting Layers to Channels
The typical self-styled "expert" graphic designer doesn't understand channels very well and why should he? They are rarely used in offset printing. Layers are much more understandable to a non-screenprinting designer. We convert layers into Channels to create very clean art files.

White Underbase for dark shirts
The mainstream graphic design software out there is not designed for screenprinting, it's designed for offset printing. If it were designed for screenprinting, there would be a "Create white underbase" button. There isn't. It's got to be done manually. We do it, either in vector or raster art.

Font matching/tracing: 
The client doesn't have the font and you can't find it on the internet, so what do you do?

Creative process: 
The client is not sure what they want, exactly. Connect them with us, we'll work with them to nail down an image.

Illustration: 
"I want a flaming terminator scull with dollar signs in the eyeballs", "I want my logo to look like it's on a flag, flapping in the wind".  We handle simple jobs like adding a swish under a word and we handle complex compositions. Check out www.peaceprosperityhappiness.com to see a portfolio.