STEP 3: Add registration marks. If you are using our template, you can use the reg marks included. If you are using your own method your registration marks need to be vectors. I just need to repeat that… YOUR REGISTRATION MARKS NEED TO BE VECTORS. Place your vector registration marks slightly away from your image but remember to make sure they still fit comfortably on your platen for lining up on press later. Once these reg marks are in place, they shouldn’t be moved from now on. STEP 4: Create multiple copies of artwork. Including your reg marks, use copy + paste (Command C + Command V) to create multiple copies. You will need enough copies for each colour plus one more as a master copy. Label each copy with your desired colour (ie, Master copy, Blue, Yellow, White, Underbase). At this point, make sure to lock (Command 2) all of your registration marks so you dont accidently move or edit them. STEP 5: Start working on your first colour. We will start with blue. First you will need to lock (Command 2) your master copy as we do not want to edit this copy. Then select the colour blue on all of the unlocked copied (Select – Same – Fill Colour and Stroke). Now using your eraser tool, delete all the blue colour from the other copies, in our case we will be removing blue from the yellow and white copies. STEP 6: Select and remove remaining colours. Focusing on the blue copy only, we now need to remove the other colours. Do this by locking the blue colour (Select colour – Select – Same – Fill and Stroke – Command 2) then using the eraser tool (Shift + E) to remove the white and yellow from that copy. STEP 7: Repeat the process. You need to use the same process on the other copies. In our case we should be left with 1 blue layer, 1 yellow layer and 1 white layer. Keep using the colour select (Select colour – Select – Same – Fill and Stroke) and lock tools (Command 2) to finish the process. STEP 8: Cross referance images to your master copy. The master copy is there as a reference only. At this point you can check each copy against the master to make sure you have not accidently deleted anything. STEP 9: Make layers print ready. This means turning all the colours to pure black. It is very important to make sure all of your images including the crop marks are 100% black as this will achieve a perfect film positive when going to print. The colour mode of the file should be CMYK. STEP 10: Print your film positives. Once you have printed your film positives, make sure the registration marks line up before exposing your screens. If they dont, then you may have accidently moved them in the process… If they don’t line up, you will need to go back to jail… I mean STEP 4 (very bad and unnessasary Monopoly pun). If your registration marks do line up – Congratulations, you have completed the basic seperation needed for screen printing a multi-colour image. SEPARATION STUDIO 4 TUTORIAL REGISTRATION WHAT ABOUT AN UNDERBASE?Ĭreating an underbase is a little trickier than the standard sepearations. You may want to add a ‘choke’, this gives you a little more movement when registering on the press.
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