Splitting a design into individual colours for screen and rotary printing: how many colours to use, halftones, trapping and preparing the plates.
Pull each ink into its own channel, build a choked underbase, halftone the tones and output registered films, with the settings screen printers commonly start from.
T-Seps, UltraSeps, Sep Studio NXT, SimpleSeps, Adobe, CorelDRAW and Texloom side by side: which separation types each handles, what it costs and the free routes.
How many screens for screen printing comes down to one screen per spot color, plus a white underbase on dark garments. Reducing colors and using halftones is the fastest way to cut setup cost.
Trapping in screen printing is the deliberate overlap between two ink colors that hides the white gap when a press drifts out of registration. This guide explains choke vs spread, when to use each, and how much trap to add.
Master color separation techniques for rotary and flatbed screen printing. Learn how to split designs into individual color layers, optimize screen counts, and achieve perfect registration.
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