Production Artist: Mockups, Color Seps & Print-Ready Art

Sharprint; Chicago (IL); Vor Ort; USD 48.000 - 64.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Sharprint, a Chicago-based decorated apparel manufacturer, is hiring a Production Artist to turn customer art into production-ready files and create mockups for the sales team. In this fast-paced role, you will prep art for production, generate color separations, and contribute to basic design tasks.

The position sits at the center of art and production, requiring sharp attention to detail and teamwork with sales, CSRs, and production.

Qualifikationen

• Strong Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills.
• Solid understanding of screen print production: spot color, separations, underbase, halftones, print dimensions.
• Sharp vector skills for building print-ready art from rough customer files.
• Excellent color sense with Pantone/PMS matching.
• Detail-oriented and calm under deadline in a high-volume shop.
• Team player across art, sales, and production.

Aufgaben

• Build accurate mockups and proofs: garment, placement, sizing, and color.
• Prepare customer art for production: clean up, vectorize, resize, and lay out to spec.
• Create and send color separations (seps) to the separator, print-ready.
• Handle basic creative tasks: simple designs, layout tweaks, logo edits.
• Maintain color accuracy: PMS matching, underbase, halftones, print dimensions.
• Keep the art library organized with naming conventions and version control.
• Collaborate with sales, CSRs, and production to keep proofs moving.

Kenntnisse

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Pantone/PMS color matching

Vector illustration

Print production understanding

Tools

Separation Studio

Spot Process

Jobbeschreibung

Sharprint, a Chicago-based decorated apparel manufacturer, is hiring a Production Artist to turn customer art into production-ready files and create mockups for the sales team. In this fast-paced role, you will prep art for production, generate color separations, and contribute to basic design tasks.

The position sits at the center of art and production, requiring sharp attention to detail and teamwork with sales, CSRs, and production.