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I have been doing cadcut and print xfer for a while now i have also been getting my screens developed elsewhere but this will be my 1st foray into developing my own screens.
i have a 5 colour image that i need to screenprint as a mono imagei use photoshop and coreldraw x3 if any kind soul could point me in the right direction
ok i see that and i apologise for being dumb but on printing it all comes out in shades of grey, i have tried setting it to halftone but the image(2213x2029 by 300 dpi)looks like it`s behind a frosted window
image >adjustments>brightness / contrasts...or image>adjustments>curves.... play with both and see what you get maybe post the image then we'll know what your trying to do
This is the original image, i would like to print it as a single colour (white on black) with each colour printed at `different densities`? of ink.
thank you for your patience
Last edited by baldrick; July 20th, 2008 at 05:32 AM.
sorry , there is no easy button on this one....I messed around with it a little and when it was greyscale all the colored ballons have the same color value so they all come out a very similar shade of grey.....to do it right I would first cut the colors out of the balloons and replace it with varying shades of grey
thanks, i`ve done the job in vinyl now. i just thought it would be an easy shoe-in to process my own screen i think i`ll start with some spot colour screens 1st
was i right with the postscript printer? i have an epson r1800 which i`m told has this ability i`ll have a closer look when i have time meanwhile i need someone in the uk who can print the masks for me
Check out ghostview for halftones. You can then use a non postscript printer. There is an excellent tutorial here on the forums. Jus search for ghostscript and tuturial.
Good luck...
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your epson most likely doesn't have the ability alone to rip halftones it will need a RIP software plugin...maybe like the ghostscipt mentioned above.....
there is also the image> mode>bitmap>halftone technique in photoshop, this will allow you to bypass rip software I've had some good results on easy stuff with it....good luck
there is also the image> mode>bitmap>halftone technique in photoshop, this will allow you to bypass rip software I've had some good results on easy stuff with it....good luck
i tried that but i found the `blocks` a big unless of course imake the image massively oversize and then reduce it for print?
colour to mon screenprint 
