Graphic design
Retail graphics, corporate marks, event artwork, running-shirt designs, and other creative work developed with decoration requirements in mind.
Production support
Files prepared for the process that will actually produce them.
Graphic design, production art, color separations, and laser-to-screen exposure connect creative intent to repeatable manufacturing.
Inside the operation
Art & prepress, up close.
Selected views from the equipment, finishing, inventory, and workflows connected to this work.
Color review provides accuracy to ensure your apparel is decorated properly.
Prepress equipment prepares approved art for production.
Close up of a simulated process screen print.
Detailed screen-printing color and registration.
Fine detail carried from art and produced using simulated process.
Dedicated pre-press work area to ensure efficient preparation for production.
Controlled coverage and detail in screen printing.Overview
Good production starts before the equipment runs.
Screen printing, embroidery, DTF, heat application, UV printing, and laser work each impose different requirements on artwork. Production-aware artists account for color count, underbases, halftones, stitch behavior, materials, finished size, and output method.
Impress Designs can provide graphic design independently or prepare customer-supplied artwork for production. The prepress team uses current Adobe and Corel workflows and direct laser-to-screen exposure for screen-print separations.
Capabilities & scope
Creative and production services.
Production art
Customer files are cleaned, rebuilt, sized, colored, and prepared for the selected manufacturing process.
Color separations
Spot-color, four-color-process, simulated-process, underbase, and specialty separation work created for production.
Laser-to-screen exposure
Approved separations move directly into laser-to-screen exposure for screen preparation, eliminating film and carrier-sheet steps before press setup.
Operating model
A production-aware file workflow.
- 01
Identify the product, decoration method, artwork objective, size, placement, colors, and quantity.
- 02
Create, clean, or rebuild the working artwork.
- 03
Prepare separations, cut paths, white-ink layers, or transfer output as required.
- 04
Route approved production files into the documented decoration workflow.
Customer fit
A strong fit for
- Programs moving across multiple decoration methods
- Complex process-print artwork
- Brands needing production-ready file development
- Repeat programs requiring controlled art
- Distributors that need a production art partner
A partner that stays ahead