Adjusting for silkscreen dot gain...

earwicker7
over 8 years ago

I'm getting some issues with dot gain while printing shirts. I understand why it happens, but I'm having a bit of trouble on how to compensate for it at the software level.

Here's the main issue... if I'm creating something on my own, where nobody will see anything until the shirt comes out, I know to limit the colors so that only 10-90% are used. The problem comes from when I get files (either vectors or bitmaps) which use the full range from 0-100%.

Is there any kind of blanket command that can adjust the colors so that anything from 0-9% and 91-100% is bumped into the 10-90%?

If it makes any difference, I'm using AccuRip to print the film separations.

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  • over 8 years ago
    To further complicate, I'm sure you don't want to just compress from 0-9 then = 10%,, but you want the whole spectrum for each color to compress so what was 0-100% now ranges from 10-90% (or into a spread of 80%). I tried to come up with a way to do it via the UI but came up short.

    Via a macro, someone could fairly easily write a macro that would do the simple conversion you mention, but if you want it to compress the color into the 80% then that would be a lot more work.
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