Part Illy Part Photoshop - which should i print out of?

[EmerginT]

Hi Everyone! I have to do this every once in a while and just want some advice on the proper way to do it.
I have a tif image and some text created in Illustrator - I am printing separations for screenprinting.
I originally mocked it up in Illustrator and that was where all the sizing was done.
I am assuming i should print it out of Photoshop - but don't really understand how smart objects work - Do i just copy and paste the Illustrator text into Photoshop?
Any advice on smartmedia objects would be of help
THanks!

[hewligan]

Why would you print it out of Photoshop? If it's in Illy, print it from Illy.

And smart objects are pretty cool. You can get a smart object by pasting into a photoshop document (that'll offer you a bunch of options, and you just need to pick the smart object one) or by using the File -> Place command, and picking a file.

The data is embedded in the photoshop document, not linked, but if you double click it in the layers palette, you'll be taken back to the original application to edit it.

[carter the artist]

Or you could put the elements together in InDesign. That's what I generally do.

[PrintDriver]

He's apparently already built it in Illy and needs to output seps.
Depending on the screen printer, I hope they can deal with raster artwork...
I'd pay them the extra to do their own seps too. That way the traps will be right.

[EmerginT]

Hi - yeah, we are the screenprinter and are printing out the seps. I added the text as a smart object into Photoshop and printed it out of there.
What i had was a Tif - which normally we would print out of photoshop and then the text is Illustrator which is vector. But then we need to print out a white base for both of them which is choked back a point or so ( because it is printing red on black shirts and of course you have to make sure it all registers or all hell will break loose around here.
Anyway, it printed out fine from Photoshop.
I just thought maybe it's not technically correct to print a tif out of illustrator - like does it stay at as high a quality - In Photoshop we can darken everything and since it's a fairly complex illustration ( only one color though) - I had to thicken it up a bit - there is a lot more flexibility in photoshop.
I'm confusing myself trying to explain it.
I didn't know that you could double click the smart media object's layer and then it would jump to illustrator.
When you change it in Illustrator, does it automatically change it in Photoshop or do you have to do something to put it into effect?

[hewligan]

Nah, you don't have to do anything unusual. When you open a smart object from photoshop, and edit it, when you save, it saves back to the smart object in photoshop rather than to a file.

And tifs printed from Illustrator come out just fine.

[EmerginT]

Thanks! everyone!