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Printing Transparencies: Method 1 (using Printer Color Profiles; most reliable)
Photos & Bitmaps
- First, set up your transparency as outlined in the Digital File Preparation section. Your photo must be a bitmap to show up for silkscreen.
- Open up your bitmap in Photoshop .(File >Open)
Highlight color coral Important: Covert your bitmap back to Grayscale by going Image > Mode > Grayscale. This method won't work if you don't do this.
- In the dialog that pops up, set Size Ratio at 1.
- Go to File > Print
- Select the following:
- Under COLOR MANAGEMENT
Printer: Epson 9880- Color Handling: Printer manages colors
- Choose Normal Printing
- Rendering Intent: Relative Colormetric
- Under POSITION AND SIZE (scroll down)
Position: Where on the print area you want it- Scale: 100% (this is important for the dot resolution)
- Position: Where on the print area you want it to be (top, middle, bottom). Center is always safe.
- Under PRINTING MARKS
- These can be useful, especially for registering CMYK prints. The registration, description and crop marks can help (but remember you will have to cover them up on your screen)
- Description can be useful to remember which transparency is which. It will put your file name on your transparency; especially useful for CMYK separations to remember which is which.
- Under COLOR MANAGEMENT
- Now press on the PRINT SETTINGS button at the top, beside "COPIES"
Texts and Lines (Vectors)
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