Silkscreen Halftones?
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- -scarabin-
so i have a 3 color tee (red, white, grey on black fabric) i'd like to pare down to a 2 color job using white for my grey.
is there a special process to go about doing this? do i just make my grey white and run a halftone filter on it?
what's your favorite method?
(i'm new to silkscreening)
- -scarabin-0
man, it would be nice to have a third color
cheap clients are so annoying
- mrdobolina0
your line screen is going to be very important in the output. what are you using now?
also, what mesh count?
- -scarabin-0
i have no fucking clue
i don't even know who's printing it; some band's manager just called me up and said he wanted a 2 color tee pronto
never done anything silkcreen for anyone except for a one-color job that didn't involve halftones
i guess i'll be giving the guy a psd with solors on separate layers?
- mrdobolina0
yep that is how you would separate the colors.
be sure you ask him, he may need black for each color in which case just give him each layer in different pdf's and make them all black because they need film positives for each color. As far as the halftone effect works, I would ask him what mesh count they are using and be sure to stress the fact that you are doing a halftone and need to know what line screen they are dealing with. You can select these in your print output.
Once they tell you that info make pdf's of each one and get into the preferences in pdf output and you can specify these things in the pdf. so that the halftone dots will be to your specs. Moire and dot gain are problems when you are dealing with screenprinters. press check with these dudes too, screenprinters are luddites, they may think that the shitty output is the effect you were looking for.
- acescence0
dot gain is often 20+ percent, so be careful!
and make sure you overprint rather than knock out, red printed on top of white looks good, red straight on black tee, not so good.
- -scarabin-0
thanks for the tips.
where exactly do i change halftone settings?
- shilohous0
convert to bitmap
- mrdobolina0
hope I helped out, hotrod.