Comments on: A Beginners Guide to Digital Textile Printing

By: rashi

rashi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:48:56 +0000

very informative….cheers!!

By: Harmony

Harmony — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:23:37 +0000

Most (99%) of my fabrics are rotary screen printed. I do some digital work but only on rare occasion.

Thanks for the kind words…. and help! I kept asking people how to make global color changes in Illustrator and kept getting “work arounds” that didn’t cut it for me. The double click global change is my dream come true.

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:29:06 +0000

My pleasure, I hope it works out for you
Are your textiles digitally printed or screened?

I really love your collection.

No repayment necessary, I’m just happy that people like the tut.

By: LoungeKat

LoungeKat — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:17:47 +0000

If you have to use compression (for Tif) I would suggest LZW for designs with flat colours (as it is most effective when compressing solid indexed colours) and Zip for photographic style images. Both are lossless.

By: Harmony

Harmony — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:31:15 +0000

THANK YOU! You have NO idea how happy I am to have read this post. I have been struggling with making the change from Freehand to Illustrator for my textile design work and with your info on color management I now am ready to take the plunge! It was the missing link and YOU gave it to me. HUGE gratitude! If there is any way I can repay the favor – please let me know.

By: Gila

Gila — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:49:07 +0000

Brilliant tutorial! Only thing missing: How to compress if necessary. With Spoonflower’s doll panel contest, I was basically stuck. Had to design on a full yard – and that’s a 99mb Tif.

I hope I got compression right, it looks okay on screen; and I can’t order a test yard before the competition.

By: janine

janine — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:52:28 +0000

Thanks! It’s brilliant. It solves a different problem that I’ve been having with a class lesson.

By: Marcos Cortes (Dominican Republic)

Marcos Cortes (Dominican Republic) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:59:58 +0000

amazing great post !!! i`ve been looking for this…thanks for share.

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:33:10 +0000

Haha! I’m glad you like the illustration ~;3

(Very cute blog – Haruhara Haruko is the best!)

By: Arabella

Arabella — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:54:20 +0000

Thanks! This is a great tutorial. I was worried about colour and image quality for my Spoonflower fabric design ideas… no if I just follow this tute it should all be good!

Thanks so much for sharing!