I am taking a break from work because it is driving me NUTS, NUTS, NUTS!!!!! My biggest problem in screen printing is lining up multi-color images when the outline is very small. I get it all lined up and locked into place but when I lift up the screen once, it goes out of alignment. Not sure what the heck I am doing wrong but its getting on my last nerves. Well, maybe not my last nerves but pretty darn close. :)
I made sure I checked "over-print" outline before I printed the transparencies. I guess this is when micro-registration comes in handy. I will have to put that to the top of my list. WOW...it is taking me forever. I wouldn't worry quite so much but ALL of my designs have an outline. Yikes!! Not good.
One thing I need to do is make better registration marks. The registration marks that print from CorelDraw are so thin and tiny I can't see them very well when they are washed out. Most of the time they don't wash out all the way. There is a way to make a template with big thick plus ( + ) signs and use that template every time you design an image. I will have to research how to make a template. The way I am doing it now is very time consuming and not productive at all. Did I say it is getting on my last nerves?
Try and try again!!
Jeanette
I use photoshop and not corel draw .. but it exist a "shape" that look like targets and I use it as registration marks for all my designs...
ReplyDeleteI've made an example for you here : http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/3733/registration4jeannette.png
Hope it helps !
Christophe.
Hey Christopher,
ReplyDeleteI checked out your registration mark. I can do it for one color prints but when I try to use my template for multi-color jobs....the registration marks only show up on one page (the black page). Not sure how to correct this. Thanks for the help.
Jeanette
you're not separate colors the good way ... there is a feature on photoshop to do that in one clic ... the best video I found to explain is ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg7Dp6LnUSM
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