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ART PROOFS and SEPARATION PROOFS FOR THE SAKE OF THE PROCESS

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whitewater:
My goal is to not print for anyone that wants a "Separation Proof"

Dottonedan:
THAT'S AN EXCELLENT QUESTION.


Screen shots are fine but controlling the size and resolution of those can be challenging.
There are two things I do.


First let me say, I'm not a believer in any benefits of providing a proof (of the sim process seps). Mainly for the reason that the actual production seps do not full represent how it will print on apparel. We have dot gain compensation built in, colors will not be accurate and channel blends and color solidity will not be accurately represented. Therefore, a proof of actual production seps does not really look like how it will print, thus making a Production proof futile.
Most customers will never understand that and won't know what they re really looking at.




A, IF, the customer is print savvy (like another printer), and they really want to see a composite of the seps, you can do this in Photoshop.


1, Make sure you are in RGB.
2, Change the resolution of the file to 150ppi to provide a smaller files size.
3, Fill the background with the shirt color (or, take a screen shot of the shirt or open an image of the shirt) and import/drag and drop the shirt in the RGB sep file onto a layer.
4, Scale that up so that it's extending way  beyond the file boundaries until. the shirt texture fills up enough space to be the full size imprint area without any part of the shirt like sleeves or collar. Paste.
5, Go to Channels window, Hold down on the shift key and click on each sep channel to have them activated.
6, In the channels window, go to TOP RIGHT fly out/drop down window and click on MERGE SPOT COLORS.


This is a full color composite of the actual seps. This to me, can look "closely" to the original art but not 100%. The customer, will not know to understand the differences or be able to detect (if) the sim process is not correct or something. The only benefit would be to show if the type or an area is not an actual color that it was supposed to be (like if you accidentally made a YELLOW line of type Purple) when it should have been Yellow.




B You can simply open the Original RGB art, turn off/hide the shirt or background color, and then MERGE VISIBLE. Then, SAVE AS a transparent PNG.   This transparent PNG can then be laid over/placed/drag and drop onto a photo image of the shirt (sized/scaled down accordingly) and then saved as a jpg. The jpg will have a white background behind the shirt photo, so be sure to have the photo smaller within the document size. This will be your Proof/Mockup. Same thing can be done during the approval process of the design. Easy to do for changing out multiple shirt colors if you keep the proof file (in layers) but save as a jpg copy when done.

@whitewater. LOL!  So true, but some good customers feel they know a thing or two, so we may want to accommodate them.

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