Silkscreen Printed Discs – Graphic Design Tutorial #2
Our first Tutorial for Silkscreen Printed discs was how to create colour separations, and based on the positive feedback we’ve received we have followed that up with Tutorial Number Two: Using Less Than 100% Solid Colour.
From our experience a lot of todays do-it-yourself designers (as well as a fair few professional graphic designers) aren’t experienced in designing for commercial print and don’t realize that designing for the internet or multimedia applications has a different set of rules than that of commercial print. For those designers Silkscreen printing must seem like a plot to drive them crazy.
One of the best features about many methods of modern printing is designing on a computer-screen where “what you see is what you get” (aka: WYSIWYG) … you get to proof your designs on the very same display device that the finished design will be viewed on (though we will conveniently ignore the fact that the colours may look different when viewed on different computer monitors).
With commercial print, what you see on your monitor may very well NOT be what you get… with Silkscreen printing being the biggest offender. Proof-in-point is when you use less than 100% solid colours in your design but, rather than re-explain it all here in this post, it’s better to read out our tutorial which shows images of the difference between what you see on your monitor and what will actually go to print.
