This is a topic dear to my heart. Now that I am doing a lot of high-end color separations, every day I have a lot more chances to deal directly with artists. I am simply amazed at how little they know about file formats, the color separation process, or how to tweak artwork to make it much more color-separation friendly. While I have a high respect for all artists and know that they have talent that I don’t, this article is designed to help anyone creating images for screen printing (or pretty much any printing process) to be better with less built-in problems.