In this tutorial I'm going to show you guys how to create a registration mark
that will print out on all your separations coming up welcome back
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so what we are going to do is we are going to create a new file for us what
we use is 13 by 19 film so I'm going to go here and I am going to type in 13 and
I'm going to go ahead and make it 18 rather than 19 and I'll show you why
here in a moment now that we have our document all set up I'm going to show
you guys how to quickly make a registration mark I'm just going to go
over here and select my ellipse tool I'm going to make sure that there is no fill
and that we have an outline I'm gonna hold shift and I'm going to drag a
circle and you can make yours whatever size you want it to be
mine's generally at about maybe half an inch so let's go ahead and make that
half an inch and again you can make this whatever size you want to make it and
then I'm going to hit P on the keyboard I'm just going to use my pen tool and
then I'm going to click somewhere above and below it I'm going to copy this part
of the registration mark we hit command C and command F command F what it does
is paste it it puts that image in front it paces it in front
so I'm gonna hold shift and I'm gonna back that up for a second and when it
turns into this little arrow for rotating it I'm gonna hold shift and
then you can rotate it to the left or right it's going to achieve the same
effect so now I'm going to select all of these together and with my alignment
tool here if it's not popping up for you you can go to window in a line and you
can see I have it down here and I'm going to make sure it is set to align to
selection and then I'm going to use this here which is the horizontal align and
then the vertical align so I'm going to go ahead and click both of those so now
everything is nice and centered up I think I want to make these a little bit
bolder because we did scale it down so our stroke did scale down as well so I'm
going to make that one point generally for me using a one-point stroke and
putting that into our screen allows for the registration marks would be pretty
fines that way when you're printing your screens and trying to stack them all on
top one another if one slightly off from the other you'll be able to notice that
you can also make them a little thicker if it's a little easier for you to see
but I tend to like to keep my registration mark at about one point so
now we have our registration mark created but there is one more step
before this will actually print out on all of our film now let's go over here
to our swatch palette and you'll see right here it looks just like a
registration mark what you want to do is click on that and assign it registration
color now at this point this registration mark will print out on all
of my films so if we back up even a little further what I'm going to do so
I'm going to select this hit command G and I tend to like to have my
registration marks in all four corners and I'm just holding the command option
and shift button to clone that off command option shift
the ship just holds it on its horizontal plane here now I'm going to go back and
I'm going to grab these two that I just made and I'm going to hold shift and
option and then drag it down now I can take these and I can group them go back
to my line tool make sure this time it is set to align to artboard and I can
Center align that now that they're grouped and they're centered on my piece
of film we could take it even one step further and make sure that we have some
sort of center marks on our film so that way you do know that you're lining up
your your film or your screen to the center of your pallet if you draw a
center line down it you can use the center line to help align your image
make sure it's nice and centered on your pallet so I just what I just did there
is I double clicked on the graphic that gets me with inside that group we have a
couple groups with inside a group because we grouped all these
registration marks together that's once I have our group now I'm going to double
click again and I'm right back to the group of this registration mark so now
I'm going to copy that and then double click on the outside that gets out of us
out of our grouping and I'm going to hit command F to paste it in front then I'm
going to take my alignment tool again and align that to the center of the page
and we can go back and do that same thing here with these other registration
marks I'm just going to keep double clicking until I can get to the pass
that I want I'm going to copy that double click out command F to paste it
in front and then I'm going to centerline that and that's essentially
how my registration template is set up everything here all these strokes are
our registration color right here if you guys are interested in my pre-made
registration template be sure to check out our link down in the description is
ready to go it has your screen frame size of your screen
25:24 cement for manual printing we will have an automatic version coming up here
soon now if I hit command P with my image in here all my registration marks
were going to show up what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and bring in
a graphic that is already separated and will print what each of these images are
so each of these separations will print out with these registration marks and
let me go ahead and demonstrate that real quick let's go to our mr. visitor
tees here I have the back portion of this graphic that have already separated
out so I'm going to double click on it and I'm going to go ahead and paste that
onto my artboard and I'm gonna scale this down a little
bit because it is just a smaller graphic meant for the back and I'm going to just
Center this up using my line tool again make sure it's Center on my artboard
okay so now this is ready print when I brought this in it did bring in the four
spot colors that it will take to print this image we have our white underbase
our blue or purple and then our white highlight so now if I hit command P or
if I went to file and print what's going to happen is we have our separations all
set up first thing we need to do is go to our printer we have AK Europe and we
have an Epson 1430 and we are going to select our 13 by 19 superbee and the
reason we're selecting the 13 by 19 is we want to go to our marks and bleeds
and we're going to click on page information so now the separation that
does print out it will have that color printed on to that film so when I burn
that into my screen I'll know exactly what color that is now going back to
general I just want to make sure all of our settings are correct we have we have
Dean art going to our accurate which goes to our Epson fourteen thirteen
thirteen by nineteen film we got our page information set there now on output
we do to set that to separations now the the
way separation studio is working these days it is bringing it in as an RGB
image if you had an image that was already separated let's say you got your
spot colors assigned in a graphic then none of this would show up if this is
showing up then you need to go back to your separations preview which you can
go to window separations preview and click on over print deselect the CMYK
and see what is disappearing exactly but like I said again separation studio the
new version does bring in RGB channels it separates it and keeps RGB channels
there for representation so I'm going to click off over print preview go back to
print command P or file print and click on output and deselect my cyan magenta
yellow and black now we're left with our four spot colors when I go ahead and
print this out you will see that every single one of these separations will
have our registration marks and I've already printed these out and what I did
is essentially I combined the the front graphic with the back graphic and you
can see that each one of these pieces of film has the registration mark and
they're all going to be in the same spot here so here's our front graphic here
and we have our registration marks there on each piece of film along with the
name of whatever the the color is that we're going to print so this is gold our
PMS and gold now to take this even a little further is what you could do is
save out this file and use this as your registration templates that way you
don't have to recreate it every single time you go to do your separations so
what I did is I got rid of that graphic and I also deleted those spot colors in
there because we don't need those and you could even go ahead and just delete
every single swatch in there so that way when you do bring in your artwork you
essentially all you're left with is your registration color so we'll just
delete all this whenever you're going to separate your art you can put in your
new swatches create your new spot colors and all that and you'll be all set and
you won't have a whole lot of clutter so now what we're going to do is we're just
going to save this as an Adobe Illustrator template it's this extension
right here the AIT illustrator template now we can just save this and call this
t-shirt
registration template so now if we save this out we have our
template that we can pull up every single time when we're going to do our
separations I'm going to close this out now I'm going to go back and open up
that template here we are here so when we open it what it's going to do is open
up a brand new file as you see here we have is untitled for now we have a new
document to work with to do our separations great idea something that
you can do is you can just go ahead on like say for instance on a Macintosh I
believe there's a way to do it on a PC too but on a Mac you can just click
locked and now you can't save over this template you won't accidentally save
over it for whatever reason and you're all set you got your template ready to
go you can open this up every single time you're ready to do your separations
and print out your film thanks for tuning in guys I really do appreciate it
I hope this video tutorial was helpful for you guys hopefully it makes you a
little more efficient in your screen printing and if you guys have any other
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