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!
Is there a way to create different types of "fades/halftones" in ie; Concentric Circles, Parallel Lines, Parallel Wavy Lines, Thin Irregular Lines, Grains Patterns Resembling old steel engravings, Wood Grains, Mezzotint Screen, Linen Texture Screen, Three-Tone Posterization, etc squares or really large halftones for a design effect? Iv'e seen "Subway" employee t-shirt where they have this effect. It looks like POP art. The "Halftone" effect that iv'e tried in the past is always choppy. Is there a way to create these effects with vector clairity? (Or close enough for screenprinting.)
Thanks, Matt
Matt, as you say, the best way that I've found is to indeed use vector dots.
To avoid doing them semi-automatically, Rasterbator provides a wonderful alternative.
Problem is we are not able to preview the half tones before we print. We want to see sizes and angles and effects. Possible?