Expert guides on seamless patterns, color separation, and textile production techniques.
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.
TIFF is the universal textile standard, but every format has a role. This guide compares TIFF, PSD, PNG, JPG, and PDF for textile print production — with real color-space, compression, and compatibility trade-offs.
Blurry artwork reaches every textile designer eventually — a client sends a 72 DPI logo, a scanned sketch loses detail, or an old file needs to print at 10x scale. This guide walks through the four reliable ways to sharpen textile designs before they hit fabric, and which method to use for which problem.
Preparing artwork for textile printing means hitting four targets: resolution (300 DPI at final size), color space (CMYK or spot Pantone, not sRGB), file format (TIFF or PSD flattened), and a clean, tileable repeat. Miss any one and you pay for the reprint. This guide walks through each, with the numbers real production shops actually check.
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