Colour Halftone
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- scrap_paper
I'm trying to set up a one colour vector file for screenprinting.
All the printer can tell me is that he needs it set up for a 60 line print.
Can anyone tell me how to set up for these specs?
- fresnobob0
if it is a 1 color vector you don't need to do anything
- neowe0
do you mean a Line Screen of 60°
- scrap_paper0
There are screens of the one colour. 20% 40 % etc.
All the guy would tell me is "60 line screen"
- monospaced0
how big is the screen going to be?
- I just printed my artwork on a b/w laser printer and turned that into a transparency to make a screenmonospaced
- those printers make good halftones most of the timemonospaced
- scrap_paper0
Ok. I understand what line screen is but how do I set up my colours in illustrator to the specs?
So I have a line screen of 60º and the colour I need to set up is say % of Pantone 293 what do I do?
Select the vector object -> PIxellate -> colour halftone ->?
Is that how you would set it up?
- Miesfan0
This
- fresnobob0
color halftone filter won't work...
like miesfan said, easiest thing to do would be to change your pantones to black, open up in PS, convert your to bitmap and apply the proper screen
there is a proper way which I believe involves going to your print dialogue, setting the LPI somewhere and printing to file, but I can't remember how to do it...
- MKD0
just send the printer the vector file and let him do it? Thats what he gets paid for? Now go design something else! :-)
- No shit eh!! Thats whet I told my client and what I normally do.scrap_paper
- DrBombay0
If it is line screen, does he mean he wants a printed positive?
This should be in your printer settings, not any adobe software.
- Mr_Right0
Tell him its line art, there's no halftone? Is that the case?
- hellrod0
Find a new printer. It's their job to do all that pre-press set up.
This is all set up how the printer RIPs the file. Not on your end. You can see how it works if you go to print the file and in your dialogue box maybe select Adobe Postscript File as your printer and take a look at Output settings and change the Mode to Separations. Now look down at you document ink options. See all the info there with the spot color and the associated LPI? Double click on it and you can change it. But like I said... this is on the end of the person ripping the file for output. Not you.