T-Seps Features


T-Seps Is Great for Small and Large shops even if you only have a 6-color manual press. It is a Suite of NINE Programs in one! T-Seps works in Photoshop 6.0 to CS4 on both Windows and MAC platforms. It works on Mac OSX up to Snow Leopard and works on Windows 7. Note: T-Seps is not 64-bit compatible (Windows only). Many plugins are not 64-bit compatible. You simply need to run Photoshop in the 32-bit version which is automatically installed with CS4. This is not a big deal and 64-bit is not available yet on the MAC platform. If you have an Intel based MAC you need to run in Rosetta mode when using T-Seps. NEW T-Seps/FastFilms Training Classes! Details Here.
Simulated Process Color Separations For dark and light shirts



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 brigher 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 ontop 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. *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. *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.

Index Color Separations For dark or light shirts


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 pixelsn (commonly called square dot). 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. It is like magic.

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.

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.

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!


Plus a Lot more! Check out all the “buttons” you get with T-Seps. Click on the image on the right to enlarge it. Special Image Effects Jazz up images with eye catching effects. Choose from five different edge effects to liven up images. 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. Instant RIP Halftone Converter With our NEW Halftone Converter you don’t need RIP (raster image processor) software to output films! Press a button and each separation is automatically converted to inkjet or laser printer ready pre-halftoned images. Save hundreds of dollars on a RIP! 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. 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! 85 Page Manual T-Seps has an very detailed Reference Manual. 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 manual here. Free Toll Free Phone and Email Support Support is done by Scott Fresener. Simply call 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. 2-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. Support Forums T-Seps support is also done by Scott Fresener and his support techs and actual users at the T-Seps/FastFilms Support Forum.




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.