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The guy at the print shop told me my dark t-shirt designs looked like blobs
Last month I brought in a batch of custom shirts for a local 5K run and the printer just laughed. He said my white ink on black shirts had zero detail because I was using too thick of a stroke in my vector file. I was so embarrassed I almost walked out. But he sat me down and showed me how to break the design into layers with smaller gaps for the ink traps. Now I actually look at my files under 2x zoom before sending them out. Has anyone else gotten roasted by a printer and had to totally redo their whole workflow?
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faith_perez6d ago
My buddy tried to screen print his band logo on some hoodies last year and the shop guy straight up told him his design looked like "melted crayons." Turns out he was using like a 24pt stroke on everything and the spaces between the letters were basically non-existent. The printer ended up walking him through adjusting the trap gaps to like 0.5mm and it saved the whole run.
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butler.shane6d ago
@faith_perez that trap gap lesson is the kind of stuff nobody tells you until you screw up. Did the printer mention anything about halftones for the small details or was it all about the gap spacing?
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