Get Loose

So at some point I am sure you will need art to print. In my experience silkscreen printing has the best results when the art is loose. When I say loose I mean that the art does not need to be registered within millimeters.I have worked with some of the greatest poster artists around and the common thread through all of their work is this "looseness". You may have a great color design on your computer screen but if it cannot bounce around a bit on the press it is gonna look like shit as a final print. This is particularly true when you are printing flatstocksimply because the way it is printed is one color at a time. Another thing you as an artist/designer need to think about is print order. This is the order in which colors are printed. If you are working in two or more colors it is very important that you know which color is printed first and you do not lay that color on TOP of another color as it is impossible to print underneath a color that has already been printed. the way that you decide print order is what color traps the other colors, what colors lay on top of other colors and what color just sits underneath everything. You can easily test this in illustrator or photoshop by creating your art in layers and mess around with turning the layers on and off to see what effect you get. I used the term trap a bit ago and you may be wondering what I meant by that. Say you have an illustration of a girl her dress is red and her skin is beige. there is a black outline that goes around the whole figure. The point in which this outline borders the other colors that constitute this girl is your trap. My print order for this would be red, then beige, then the black outline that"traps" the other colors.I am positive that if you simply keep this in mind you will have alot of success with screenprinting.