| There are between 20,000 and 30,000 registered screen printing companies in the U.S. and many thousands more worldwide. Additionally, there are thousands of companies that are run from backyards, garages, and storage facilities. All of these screen printing companies have one thing in common—they all use some type of graphics program to create artwork, work with client files, and print out specialty prints and color separations for their film and screens. Many of these artists use some version of Photoshop; unfortunately, there isn’t a single book available on the subject…until now!
This book details how to use Photoshop CS3 in a screen printing company. Screen printers have different needs than offset print facilities, advertising companies, artists, photographers, or web designers, and most books on Photoshop don’t address these needs. As you know, most Photoshop users don’t need a thorough explanation of four-color separations and how to print them on PostScript printers, but screen printers certainly do; in fact, it is the heart of the process.
In this book I’ve made certain assumptions, such as you either have a working screen print facility or are just starting one, you have a working knowledge of computers, and you have Photoshop CS3 installed or will install it soon. |
