T-Seps Features

T-Seps 2.0 is here and it is now a suite of FOURTEEN programs in one! T-Seps is great for small and large shops even if you only have a 6-color manual press. T-Seps works in Photoshop 6.0 all the way to the new CS5 on Windows and MAC platforms. Corel Draw users click here. T-Seps works on older PowerPC Macs through the latest Intel based Mac running Snow Leopard and Lion (the free trial only works in 32-bit mode on Mac but when purchased it is unlocked for 64-bit), and it works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. In fact with today’s fast computers it works great on a laptop, too! And, it does NOT need a dongle. Note: T-Seps does NOT work in the consumer version of Photoshop Elements. Are you in a hurry to see how great this program works? Download sample seps right now. Output film, burn them on screens and make a print. Click here to go to the Samples Page. Check out these great features. Read what real users have to say and see lots more samples at our new Facebook T-Seps Fan Page.
Simulated Process Color Separations For dark and light shirts including special Discharge Ink separations

Traditional printing on paper uses the four colors of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. This is commonly called CMYK or Process Color. This method is the standard for offset printing photorealistic images. CMYK works well for screen printing on light shirts but does NOT work well on dark shirts. The inks are too transparent and the prints are weak and dull. A dark shirt typically needs an underbase white, highlight white and brighter colors using standard off-the-shelf plastisol ink. The final look of the image will be photorealistic but the colors of CMYK are not used. This process is called Simulated Process Color. It is a technique developed years ago where standard spot colors that are converted to halftone dots print on top of and next to each other to “simulate” a Process Color look. When you see a bright looking photorealistic image on a dark shirt it is done with at least six colors of ink. If the color separations are done correctly, this process is actually fairly easy. In fact once you start doing simulated process color you will be amazed that it is easier to print than tight registration spot color! *T-Seps* creates OUTSTANDING Simulated Process Color separations. In fact 80% of dark shirt jobs can be printed with a six color press and YES you can do outstanding work on a manual press and vellum to burn screens. *T-Seps* makes is easy. No only does it create great color separations, it also tells you how to output them to vellum or film including what halftone line count to use and what halftone angle to use. It tells you what screen mesh to use for each color and what color sequence to print the job in. And, best of all, it lets you use off-the-shelf plastisol (or waterbased) ink colors of red, yellow, light blue and dark blue. Simple! You will be amazed at your first job. You don’t have to be a Photoshop expert to use T-Seps. Whether you want to print standard simulated process color with plastisol, special discharge or waterbased ink separations or make your own photorealistic simulated process color hot or cold split heat transfers…. T-Seps can do it all with the push of a button. Watch a short video Watch a short video Watch a short video
Index Color Separations For dark or light shirts including a new Discharge Ink routine

Index Color is at its best when you can print a lot of colors. Some of the best images on dark shirts are indexed but they are generally eight colors or more. Index Color is also EXCELLENT for simple images with a few colors and works great for Spot Color designs. With T-Seps it is easy to run a variety of routines and see what routine did the best job on the design. *T-Seps* has an optional Hybrid routine that combines a halftone dot underbase (easier to tweak) with Index Color separations for the colors. This gives you the best of both worlds and basically combines Simulated Process Color and Index Color separation strengths. Index Color separations use a special technique that converts the entire image into separations that consist of small dots or pixels (commonly called square dots). These are not the same as halftone dots that vary in size. Each pixel in an Index separation is the same size. This routine is excellent where you need to choose the exact colors from within the image (for perfect color matching). It lets you choose the colors you want to use! It takes these colors from your color palette and makes the rest of the colors work. And, there is also a new discharge ink routine. It is like magic. Watch a short video
CMYK Process Color Separations For dark or light shirts

Now you can print stunning CMYK four-color process on light or dark shirts. And, if the image is going on pastel or medium color shirts T-Seps creates an underbase and highlight white file while allowing you to add up to three spot colors. The beauty of using T-Seps for CMYK is that is knows all the tricks needed to make Photoshop CMYK separations work on garments. If you use the standard Photoshop settings for paper printing you will have very poor images on T-Shirts. Watch short video
Hot Split Heat Transfer Separations For dark or light shirts

T-Seps has an excellent Hot-Split heat transfer color separation routine. If you screen print heat transfers and struggle doing photorealistic images, T-Seps is the answer. And, if will create a solid clearcoat “plate” that you can use to tie the entire design together.
Black & White Sepia Old Photo Separations For dark or light shirts

This is very popular look. Take any colored photograph and turn it into a rich black and white image (It’s actually five colors!), or give it an old photo look with the sepiatone routine. T-Seps creates an underbase and highlight for these so they will work on dark shirts, too. Watch short video
Spot Color Separations For dark or light shirts *with and without trapping*

T-Seps works great with simple spot color images. You can have the program create butt register separations or provide a slight trap to the image AND it will create an underbase with or without a choke! Learn more about T-Seps with these Overview videos Watch short video Watch short video
Plus a Lot more! (Click on images to enlarge them.) Special Image Effects Jazz up images with eye catching effects. Choose from five different edge effects to liven up images. Watch short video Distressed Look Yes, the washed and worn look it still very hot. T-Seps has the BEST routine in the industry to give your images a washed and worn look. And, you can choose from a variety of levels of worn PLUS there are other image effects that can be applied to give the entire image a unique distressed look. Watch short video Upsample Low Quality Images This routine is magic. You can upsample a very low resolution/low quality image to the final size and be amazed at how crisp the edges look. Our proprietary algorithm performs miracles. Watch short video Convert Photographs & Colored Images to Black & White This is another great routine. It will convert most full-color images to a respectable black and white line drawing. Watch short video Improve Poor JPG Images A lot of images you get are low resolution and low quality JPG files. Our JPG Enhancement routine improves the quality of poor JPG images. It helps remove artifacts and the “boxes” you get with very low quality JPG images. Watch short video Instant Registration Marks Photoshop has very small registration marks good for paper printing but not good for garment screen printing. T-Seps has three different size registration marks (small, medium and large) that you can easily place on your films. And, with changes in Photoshop CS5, you need this feature. Watch short video Halftone Routine** If you can’t afford a software RIP we have basic halftone routine that simply converts the file to halftones for output to an inkjet or laser printer. This is a low cost solution for outputting halftones. The halftone frequency is pre-set to 55lpi. For more control and the ability to change the frequency, angle and dot shape, we have a separate Halftone Converter plug-in for Photoshop. Details here. For the ultimate in output control a software RIP like T-RIP controls the amount of ink deposited on the film, lets you print black in from all of the ink slots, and gives a denser/darker image than possible from a standard inkjet printer. This is especially critical when trying to expose small halftone dots. Note: a traditional rip tells an inkjet printer how much ink to lay down and how many passes for the inkjet head to make. The T-Seps “rip” simply converts the image/channels to a bitmap that is halftoned. There is no ink control or inkjet printer control built in. Some inkjet printers don’t lay down enough ink for a good positive without a RIP. Extensive HELP T-Seps has extensive Help menus built in. Each routine prompts you for the correct file type and procedure. There is a complete section of Help menus on how to improve the artwork quality. Easy! Detailed Reference Manual T-Seps has an very detailed Reference Manual (in FIVE languages). It even has a great section on how to use Adobe Photoshop and how to improve the quality of the original artwork. The manual has a great Troubleshooting section and lots of help on how to make the most of your great separations by telling the secrets and tips of good high-end screen printing. Download a manual here. Optional T-RIP Software For High Quality Film Output T-RIP is our latest product and it was designed to work with T-Seps/FastFilms or any automated color separation program. T-RIP works with Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. It is a Windows based program but we have Mac users running T-RIP on Intel based computers with Windows emulation. It is easy to use and automatically converts the image to halftone dots and allows you to set the halftone frequency, angle, and dot shape. It has total control of the printer and tells it to lay down a heavier ink deposit at high resolution. See more details here and download a 15-day free trial. Free Toll Free Phone and Email Support Support is done by Scott Fresener. Simply call 480-212-1078 or toll free 1/888-801-1561 or email your question (and sample file) and you will get fast response to all of your questions. Support hours are from 8:30am to 5:00pm M-F MST. If you have a job that is due simply call and leave a message that you need a call back and Scott will call you night or day. Two-Hour Training DVD and Online Videos You get a two-hour Training DVD with T-Seps featuring Scott Fresener covering every part of the program and showing you how easy it is to use. Plus, Scott covers the basics of using Adobe Photoshop. And, you can easily watch the Training Videos online here. Read a full testimonial letter from a current T-Seps user here. Watch a short video on how easy it is to use the . Are you new to Photoshop. Download a FREE trial version direct from Adobe here. Do you need to purchase Photoshop or get an upgrade to it? Buy Photoshop here. *Important CS5 note: For years Adobe Photoshop has had a feature called “Screen” where you were able to change the halftone line count and angle before printing to a software RIP. Adobe chose to REMOVE this feature from CS5. Outlandish! They now force printers to take a separation done in CS5 and place the image in In-Design or Adobe Illustrator to print. Or, you need to have a software RIP like T-RIP that allows control of the halftone dots in the RIP. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Photoshop to CS5, keep the older version installed for film output. We are working hard to let Adobe know that they have removed a key part of the program. If you need a simple way to pre-convert images to halftones in Photoshop and then print to a RIP – check out the T-Seps Halftone Converter which is designed to replace the missing Screen* button. Details here.
Most sample images shown were separated with FastFilms and are from friends and customers from around the world. T-Seps uses the same print engine developed by Scott Fresener and does the same outstanding color separations. All images, trademarks, licenses, copyrights, and ownership is acknowledged. All images shown are unretouched photographs of actual shirt prints.