Expert guides on seamless patterns, color separation, and textile production techniques.
Learning how to make fabric colorways from one master pattern is the difference between one design and a full seasonal range. This guide covers palette-swap systems, colorway generators, and exporting each variant as a clean production file.
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.
A pattern that looks seamless on your laptop can still print with a visible stripe every tile. This guide walks through the three verification steps that catch seam issues before they reach production — grid preview, seam energy measurement, and a scale paper test. Takes ten minutes and saves entire runs.
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.
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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