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Originally Posted by Fluid |  | | | | | | | | | you need to try printing a halftone underbase for your process. Will take it to the next level. | |  | |  | |
In order to produce a good halftone, it needs to have a good white. I've worked some with using a black shirt to produce a black background color. In one case it worked especially well. In another case it wasn't so good. From these early tests, it looks like i would need to use both an underbase white along with either a highlight white and/or a halftone underbase white.
Right now i'm concentrating on reproducing the artwork as faithful as possible to the way the original artwork was was created. For any computer generated artwork, the background is assumed to be a true white and it is the color which brings it back to a black. Creatively, there are reasons to change this and use a halftone, but it is nothing essential. Similar to making a halftone of the white, creating a super black can also have it's creative purpose. For example, in the rough mouse, the nose, black lines of the cigar, the tops of the eyes were all converted into a super black.
fred