Spot Printing is the most common form of screen printing and it can be from 1 to 6 colors per location on most garments. What it is - basically for every distinct color in a graphic, there is a specific screen that will hold the ink on the press and get printed onto a t shirt. For example you may have a 3 color design that has blue for the text, a green for an image of a tree, and black for an outline color on the tree. Each color will need to be "separated" making a distinct black and white image with registration marks and that is what will "burn" a screen. Most sophisticated pre-press programs like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw and Freehand can generate separations by assigning a Pantone color to each color in the design and all the mind-numbing aspects of the separation are handled by the software. There are still a few tricks to the process and as more programs are being influenced by a imaging that is mostly used on the internet; logos, and designs can still prove to be a challenge to translate into screen printing artwork. The best advise we can offer is this, simply send in your art and see what the graphics department can do.
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