Expert guides on seamless patterns, color separation, and textile production techniques.
Metadata in textile design files — EXIF, IPTC, XMP — carries authorship, color profile, production history, and sometimes sensitive information. This guide covers what to preserve, what to strip, and how metadata affects production and legal workflows.
Rotary screen printing has the most specific technical requirements of any textile process — screen circumference, registration tolerances, LPI, color count all dictate design decisions. This checklist covers every file-level requirement for rotary submission.
Moiré is the wavy interference pattern that appears when repeating grids overlap at the wrong angle. In textile printing it shows up between file resolution, halftone screen ruling, and fabric weave. This guide explains the causes, the math, and the prevention checklist.
Ink coverage is one of the three biggest variables in textile print cost, alongside fabric and labor. Underestimate it and margins disappear. This guide covers how ink coverage is calculated, the process-specific multipliers, and how to build quotes that survive production reality.
Delta E is the number that decides whether a color match is acceptable, and CIEDE2000 is the modern formula that makes it reliable. This guide explains what Delta E actually measures, what tolerances apply in textile, and how to interpret the numbers on a strike-off report.
Color management is the difference between a fabric that matches the sample and one that comes back wrong. This pillar guide covers every stage — from monitor calibration to ICC profiles, Delta E tolerances, Pantone TCX mapping, and the fabric-specific quirks that generic color management ignores.
Fabric yield determines quote accuracy, ink costs, and whether a job finishes on time. This guide breaks down the exact formulas for calculating yield by garment, repeat size, waste factor, and roll inventory — with examples from real print runs.
The most common complaint in textile production: 'the colors came out different from my screen.' The answer is almost always the same — sRGB and CMYK are different color spaces that do not fully overlap. This guide explains the math, the measurable shift, and the fix.
Every textile file starts with one question: what DPI does this need to be? The answer changes based on the print process — digital textile printing needs 300 DPI at final size, rotary screen wants 360, flat screen is comfortable at 150–200. This guide explains why each process has a different target and how to calculate pixels for any print size.
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