THE PRINT SURFACE

The first physical sample order was broadly liked. It also made one problem immediately visible: some of the print application looked like material placed on top of the garment. The image existed, but its surface remained separate. What appeared controlled in a digital file became too continuous when translated onto cloth.

The question was no longer only whether a graphic was correct. It was how much of the textile could remain present inside the graphic. Grain, halftone and transparent interruptions became practical directions rather than visual effects. Broken coverage could allow the garment to take part in the image; a sealed-looking surface could not.

This distinction is now part of the review process. A graphic is not finished when its proportions work on screen. It has to be read again through the physical print, the fabric below it and the changes produced by wear and movement. The difference is small in a file and decisive on a body. The next tests move toward less continuous coverage. No method is recorded here as a solved answer. The sample established the question clearly enough to continue.