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CCU PRE-PRESS · GREENSBORO, NC · EST. 2009

Press-ready color separations and pre-cut vinyl — returned in 6 to 24 hours.

We hand-clean your customer-supplied artwork, hand-separate it onto the ink set and RIP you run, and ship the files back before your press cools down. No bots, no offshore queue, no guessing which layer is which.

Upload Artwork for a Free Quote Call (336) 555-0142
  • 187,412files shipped
  • 6–24 hrstandard turnaround
  • 4 hrrush tier available
// 01 · WHAT WE SHIP BACK

Four services, every file format a screen-printer actually sends.

AI, EPS, PDF, PSD, PNG, TIFF — send whatever your customer dropped on your desktop. We return files ready for your exact RIP, ink set, and garment.

SVC · 01

Spot-Color Separations

Hand-traced spot separations onto 23 stock ink sets — Wilflex, Union, Rutland, FN-INK, Avient, Matsui — returned as channeled TIFFs, EPS, or PDF for AccuRIP, Wasatch, and FlexiSign.

PSD · AI · EPS · PDF · TIFF
SVC · 02

Simulated Process Separations

Full-color photographic art converted to 4–8 channel simulated process on white or 50/50 black shirts, with underbase, highlight white, and choke pre-baked into every layer.

6-COL · 8-COL · CMYK+WB
SVC · 03

Dye-Sub & DTF Transfers

Mirrored, color-corrected, ICC-tagged transfer files sized to your platen or DTF roll width. Polyester dye-sub at 360 dpi, DTF at 300 dpi CMYK+W with hot-peel release profile.

ICC PROFILED · CMYK+W
SVC · 04

Contour-Cut Vinyl Graphics

Plotter-ready contour paths on Roland CAMM-1 Pro and Summa S2 T160 plotters. Registration marks, weeding bridges, and overcut set per your vinyl stock and blade offset.

ROLAND · SUMMA · GCC
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// 02 · BY THE NUMBERS
187,412 Separation files shipped since CCU-000001
4 hr Posted rush tier — used by 1,800+ shops since 2019
11 Hand-checking separation artists, 9+ yrs avg tenure
2,400+ Active screen-printing shop accounts nationwide
4.92/5 Average across 3,140 verified job-completion reviews
94% Of jobs ship same-day on a 6–24 hour turnaround
// 04 · AUDITED CASE STUDY

"Their separated files come back so clean my prepress kid hits print in under ten minutes. We tracked it across 60 days — from 47 minutes per design down to 9. The press isn't sitting anymore waiting on file cleanup."

Production Lead Tennessee-based apparel decorator · 4-press shop · audited Q3 2023
Before audit
47 min / design
After 60 days
9 min / design
Time recovered
38 min / design
// 05 · WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU HIT UPLOAD

Six handoffs, six named checkpoints, no black box.

Every file passes through the same bench workflow our separation artists have run since 2009 — with job numbers, timestamped checkpoints, and a human on the line within two business hours for any job over 250 pieces.

  1. 01

    Intake & File Audit

    Your upload lands in the orders queue at [email protected]. Within 90 minutes a desk artist opens the file, checks resolution, color mode, transparency, and channel count. You get a confirmation email with your job number (CCU-…).

    T+ 90 min · auto-confirm
  2. 02

    Hand Clean & Color Check

    A separation artist (avg 9+ yrs on the trade) opens the file in Photoshop/Illustrator, flattens transparency, rebuilds lost channels, isolates the garment color, and notes spot color matches against your stated ink set.

    T+ 3 hr · artist assigned
  3. 03

    Separation & Channel Build

    Channels are hand-traced onto your ink set — underbase, highlight white, choke, highlight, shadows, spot colors. Simulated process jobs get a 4–8 channel build with halftone screens set per your garment and press.

    T+ 6–18 hr · core work
  4. 04

    RIP Export & Native File Match

    Files export natively for your RIP — AccuRIP, Wasatch, FlexiSign, Onyx, Caldera — at the exact dot shape, LPI, and angle profile you run. ICC profiles included on request, contour paths embedded for vinyl.

    T+ 18–22 hr · output stage
  5. 05

    Two-Person Proof

    A second artist opens the separated set cold and runs a parallel proof check: channel count, registration, ink set match, underbase position. Any disagreement routes the file back to step 03 with a tracked revision note.

    T+ 22–24 hr · QA pass
  6. 06

    Ship & Archive

    Files package into a single ZIP, archived against job CCU-187,412+ for re-order. Ship email goes out with the job ticket attached — RIP name, ink set, turnaround, and the artist who touched the file. 94% land same-day.

    T+ 24 hr · in your inbox
Upload Artwork for a Free Quote $35 minimum on separations · $18 minimum on vinyl · rush tier: 4 business hours