Hi Guys
I recently started working with a screen printer, re-drawing the scraps of paper his customers give him into nice clean vector art. But I am struggling with my half tones.
What is the best was to create a half tone for screen printing?
This is the image, it will be a one colour (white) print on a black t-shirt. I just need to get my half tones correct or it will look like crap!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
One thing to remember when using heavy halftones in screenprinting is to take the percentage that is showing on the screen and knock it down about 10 percentage points (if possible), I've found that this helps mitigate the dot gain and give you a print thats closer to what youget one the screen.
I've never had a need to go down as far as 35lpi, minimum of 45 usually, with most things going out at 55lpi (both for manual and automatic presses). The most important thing is to change all of your angles to 22.5, this will help avoid any moire problems.