Comments on: Halftone Dots and Screenprinting

By: T-shirt printing:Gradients using half tone

T-shirt printing:Gradients using half tone — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:43:50 +0000

[...] Gradients require a little thinking about when screen printing. Moire patterns are tricky to avoid, many printers have their own rule of thumb calculations to decide on meshes, the most common are 3.5 or 4 X your halftone LPI = the mesh count you should use (imperial). The angle of the dot on the screen is also a big factor in avoiding moire patterns. [...]

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:56:40 +0000

the latest post about tshirt printing for fundraising is a great idea, I once used tshirts to promote a website I was making at the time. It worked out great, maybe it's time I did an article about it and linked to here! I am quite impressed by your site and it's niche/focus, your quality articles make this place an authority, I've only ever seen 1 other cloth printing type site and it was pants compared to this! Andy Bailey´s last blog post..Some important things to note for Wordpress plugin Authors

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:50:29 +0000

Thanks for taking a look Andy, this is just skimming the surface regards dots, Dave has already submitted an article in response to Lizys comment which I shall post soon if you are really interested in knowing more, but I suspect your real interest is in the commentluv, I am interested in seeing how commentluv works out for us. First signs are pretty good and I am really pleased you absorbed some info before contributing.

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:14:24 +0000

I can’t believe I just read that whole article and was interested in how many types of halftones there are! I must be such a geek to know that I’m going to be able to use a phrase like Euclidean elliptical dots can be combined and there are FM and AM screens.

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By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:47:11 +0000

Ed really knows his stuff, thanks for the Edliveshere.com link Lizy, this is very interesting, I really like examples and the magnifying tool. I was not aware of such an interest in Stochastic outside of screen printing, it will be very interesting to see how things develop. Although I am pretty sure David Foster of positivity who wrote this article for us is well aware of its advantages for other mediums.

By: Royzy

Royzy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:47:59 +0000

So it seems there is more to halftones than the simple Photoshop filter? [Does shocked face]. Interesting read, it is really good to look at a technique in a bit more depth and in a practical situation.

By: Lizy

Lizy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:35:48 +0000

Edliveshere.com has cool information about stochastic vs conventional printing. They also have good info about other printing and paper techniques. Super useful! http://edliveshere.com/issue/stochastic_conventional/