- need some advice
- Posted by Matt M on July 10th, 2003
I've sketched a logo for some friends that will end up on a t-shirt.
This is all for fun and will never be used for anything else. But I'm
not sure of the best way to provide the final output for the printer. I
would just give them a call, but apparently one of my friends has a
friend that's going to cut them a deal on the printing (I didn't want to
know the details) and apparently I can't give the guy a call at work. I
use Photoshop all the time (for video work)and I was thinking that I
could just scan the image at high resolution, clean it up a bit, and
then provide a black and white tiff to the printer. I do have access to
Illustrator at work, but I very rarely use it and it would probably take
me a couple of days figure out how the get the logo set up properly.
So would the Photoshop tiff option work or should I spend the extra time
in Illustrator?
- Posted by Hunter Elliott on July 10th, 2003
"Matt M" <nospam.webwork@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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you should probably have your friend talk to the printer and find out what
they want/need.
- Posted by Matt M on July 10th, 2003
undependable (but a good friend) and apparently they're in a bit of a
rush so that they can get it done cheaply. I pretty much sketched the
logos last night and now they want them by lunch (something about the
owner of the printing company being out of town today... but like I said
earlier, I really don't want to know any details)
- Posted by Hunter Elliott on July 10th, 2003
"Matt M" <nospam.webwork@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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vector will always give you better results, but it also can just depend on
the image - some bitmaps will print fine. So are they doing it in CMYK? Spot
Color? If it's spot color, are they wanting DCS files if it's a bitmap? I
hope you're charging them extra for the rush on your side 
- Posted by Dan on July 10th, 2003
"My friend is clueless..."
"and undependable..."
"they're in a rush..."
"they want it cheaply..."
"friend has a friend..."
"cut them a deal..."
"they want it by lunch..."
"can't call the guy at work..."
"owner is out of town..."
"will probably take me a couple days to figure out..."
"I don't want to know any details..."
Usually it only takes one or two things to send a job to hell -- you have
ELEVEN things listed!
Dan
http://www.FreelanceWorkshops.com
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- Posted by Pip on July 10th, 2003
That looks so funny when you pull out all those quotes. I usually only get a
couple of those at a time on my "cursed" (or is it cursed at?) jobs.
Thanks, Dan. :-)
Chuck
- Posted by Matt M on July 10th, 2003
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to just give them a cmyk black channel only version of the image and let
them go from there. The logos are very basic so I'm hoping this won't
be a problem. Here they are in case anyone cares:
www.hallssalvage.com/logos.htm
- Posted by Hunter Elliott on July 10th, 2003
"Matt M" <nospam.webwork@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Technically, wouldn't that be more than one color in terms of CMYK, Matt,
since you have a drop shadow? Wouldn't you need to set that up as specific
Pantone colors and do "screens" for the varying shades of the single color?
And if that's the case, would you need to send a DCS file?
- Posted by Ben Woodward on July 10th, 2003
He could set the shadow up as a screen of the original color. I did this
one time with a two-color shirt design, where we had a yellow and a
blue, with a "drop shadow" on one spot, that was simply a one color
"percentage" of the blue (technically, it was just "spaced out dots" in
a bitmap file). Worked great, and looked pretty accurate from
t-shirt-viewing distance. =)
Ben W.
Hunter Elliott wrote:
- Posted by Dan on July 10th, 2003
If the printer can use an eps file, you can literally throw them anything. I
just did a multi-fade, multi-color design for a band that I'm in; I just
emailed an eps for each design, the shirts turned out great. The printer is
trying to talk us into screening it onto G-Strings -- I'm all for it, but
there is balking in the band!
http://www.johnnyrode.com/shirts.htm
Dan
http://www.FreelanceWorkshops.com
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- Posted by Matt M on July 10th, 2003
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I was actually thinking of making it a screen as Hunter pointed out, but
I might try the EPS route, thanks Dan!
- Posted by Hunter Elliott on July 11th, 2003
"Matt M" <nospam.webwork@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Matt you will probably have to use PMS colors to do a "screen"
