"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Mark,as somebody who was just recently in your shoes, I'll tell you . . . one of the best decisions I've EVER made was to have Dan (but you could any other good separator) handle that stuff for you. Yes you will have to pay, but you will also get seps that you can look at and use as a reference. They'll help with printing and with time you'll learn to separate yourself. pierre
Question, how do some people who screenprint get away without doing halftones and only spot color jobs all the time? Next I really think if your doing art as a screenprinter then learning the basic in both programs pixel and vector is a must. When I got into printing many years ago I think halftone printing was something I was ask to do right off the bat, and knew I had to brush up on my skills. Mark I think its time for you to do like I did LOL start brushing up on your vector and halftone printing skills...one good think though you have some dam good teachers here to help ya, I learn the hard way.Darryl
I don't do Adobe, but in Corel and Ghostscript I have almost always been able to get good results with bitmaps, gradients and halftones.
The real difference was in the seps (done by Dan). pierre
I,ve done some killer artwork worthy of being in a contest, my only problem I can't sep it, so with that said there is where the skilled manually sepping guys come in at Dan, Myseps etc. Those guys are worth there weight in gold, I remember years ago this guy brought in a picture of his funny car, this car had one badass paint job I,d ever seem. He ask could we print it I said yes, but the cost might be high, so I contacted EDG out in Utah they quoted 6 to 8 hundred for the seps...we didn't do the job, but it goes to show you get paid for what you know. thanks for letting me run wild here lolDarryl