Promotional products are one of the best ways to get your business, school, or organization noticed. At MK Sales, we provide thousands of promotional products to choose from, whatever your promo budget may be.
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Four-Color Process or Full Color Printing from a series of *halftone plates (each of a single color) layered over each other to produce the full spectrum of colors. The four colors used (you knew there had to be a reason they called it four-color process, right?) are Black, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta. Virtually every color can be printed by combining these four colors.
Simulated Process Color CMYK inks (used in four color process) are transparent and do no print on dark garments. Generally a dark shirt design is created using specific spot colors that combine to give a process color look without actually using CMYK inks.
Screen Fabric stretched over a frame and precoated with a light-sensitive coating to produce open areas of negative images (from film). Screens are then used on the printing press to transfer the image to shirts or fabric by pushing ink through the open areas with a squeegee. Screens can be stored and used again for reprints of your job.
Spot Color Printing Use of one or more particular PMS colors in printing your shirts. Different from process color because the plates are not printed on top of each other, so each color is distinct, not blended.
Typesetting This word used to apply to the process of taking a small metal block with a letter of the alphabet on it and setting it in a huge box to form lines and paragraphs. Since we now use computers, typesetting can mean anything from printing a file with a 300-dpi laser printer to printing a file with a linotype machine, which generates 2400 dpi. We strongly suggest you ask whoever is doing your typesetting exactly what they mean by it.
Embroidery Stitching a design into fabric through the use of high-speed, computer-controlled sewing machines. Artwork must first be "digitized," which is the specialized process of converting two-dimensional artwork into stitches or thread. A particular format of art such as a jpeg, tif, eps, or bmp, cannot be converted into an embroidery tape. The digitizer must actually recreate the artwork using stitches. Then it programs the sewing machine to sew a specific design, in a specific color, with a specific type of stitch. This is the process known as digitizing.
