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1. How to Use the Compatible Gradient and Gradient Mesh Printing Feature - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial -    designertoday.com

2. Printing Crop Marks - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial -    designertoday.com

3. Create a Printable Christmas Tree - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial -    designertoday.com

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4. Create a Graphic for Print - Adobe Illustrator CS2??Tutorial -    designertoday.com

The first time you create a document for print, the color settings need to be set to CMYK Color.

5. Set Up Your Art for Screen Printing - Adobe Illustrator CS2?? Tutorial -    designertoday.com

Here is a graphic that I created in Illustrator. As you can see, there are only 4 colors. For screen printing, it is important to consider how many colors you are going to use because each color you add will increase the cost of printing.

6. Create and Print a Brochure with Photoshop, Indesign and UPrinting.com – Part 2 - Vectortuts+    vector.tutsplus.com

I have been in the graphic arts trade for 25 years and use ADOBE CS3

7. Design a Print-ready Ad in Adobe InDesign - Vectortuts+    vector.tutsplus.com

8. Design a Print-Ready Beer Label in Adobe Illustrator - Vectortuts+    vector.tutsplus.com

9. Design and Print Bold Promo Cards in 60 Minutes - Vectortuts+    vector.tutsplus.com

10. Printing & Prepress Basics - Vectortuts+    vector.tutsplus.com

One thing that works for one of the printers I use is to flatten an enormous file into a flat high resolution .jpg for flyers and it prints out perfect.

11. Create a Business Card in Illustrator and Print it with UPrinting - Vectortuts+    vector.tutsplus.com

12. Super-Slick, Screen Printing Separations with Illustrator - Vectortuts+    vector.tutsplus.com

However staying below eight colors is generally a good practice to follow. This is because there are simply not enough screen-printing shops capable of handling more than eight screens. And those that can will often charge you liberally for their specialized services. So, for the sake of your own sanity and your printer's, keep your designs to eight colors or less and remember less is more – restrictions can often lead to great design breakthroughs. Using these limits and researching different printing techniques and effects will help to maximize your shirt's monetary and visual value.

13. How to Prepare Artwork for Screen-Printing - Vectortuts+    vector.tutsplus.com

14. Preparing Multiple Instances of a Bumper Sticker for Print - Vectortuts+    vector.tutsplus.com

We can reach the same result with Adobe InDesign and I advise you to do this with InDesign.

15. A free video tutorial on Illustrator Print-ready Postcard    video-tutes.com

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16. Designing for Print – Setting Up Crops and Bleed    blog.spoongraphics.co.uk

A design destined for print requires setting up to certain specifications to ensure that the work is printed correctly by industrial lithographic or digital print firms. This often starts with the initial document upon which the design is to be created by adding the correct bleed area and crop marks. Let's take a look at what crops and bleed actually are, why they are required and how to set them up in your favourite Adobe package.

17. Coolillustrations.com-Illustrations print and web    coolillustrations.com

18. TUTORIAL: Design a character for a T-shirt print - Digital Arts    digitalartsonline.co.uk

Character creation is a personal thing. Anyone can doodle stick drawings and scrappy characters, but armed with an insider???s knowledge of cracking character design, you can breathe life into any design.

19. 5 Tips for Designing a Catalog or other Printed Material | Moongrabber    moongrabber.com

-This is also the time when you need to start thinking and researching to find out just how many copies of the catalog you really need.  If you can, go back and look at catalogs or other printed material that has been done in the past and use that as a guide to how many copies of the new catalog will be needed from your printer.  Also check with your printer to see if there is a price break on reprints of your catalog and be sure to break down the price quotes per catalog, so you can compare apples to apples with different printers and quantities.

20. How to prepare a file for printing in illustrator    tutorialfolder.com