Originally Posted by jeffy162
....Also, artwork that is screen printer ready is really a p.i.t.a to make. Unless, of course, you have the proper graphics program already (and by that I mean one that will do the graphic at the right format to work with their machines and save the right way) and have done that type of work before.
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I'm an avid fan of Corel software (CorelDRAW (vector graphics) and Corel Paint (bitmap graphics), and have been for years. It is superb at creating printer-ready files. It'll out-perform Illustrator and Photoshop in so many ways. I don't want to start a discourse on this subject, though.
Originally Posted by jeffy162
....If you only want one shirt (or maybe a couple), you'd probably be better off looking up the local airbrush artist and having them whip one up for you. Still not cheap, but cheaper than the screen printer by far, I bet.
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Doing it right the 1st time, is always cheaper!
I'm now retired, but I was a master airbrush artist and a Senior Technical Illustrator and have worked for many fortune-500 companies. At many of those companies, I used AutoCad and trained other employees to use it. My specialty was 3D Solids Design and Isometric Illustrations. I started at The Boeing Company in Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1966. I was even once the "Art Chief" at the National Enquirer Newspaper in Lantana, FL. Had to airbrush photos to make them look 'snappy!' -- LOL. But now, I'm so old that I've forgotten just about everything I used to know!