eric0524

I just started back into screen printing and I am finding it's not like riding a bike..... I have corel 12 and Illustrator X2 I remember 8 years ago I was able to print on my transparency and I was able to dither with circles or something to make a fading grey so I only needed one screen and I could make a shirt that looked almost grey scale. Can anybody PLEASE clue me back in on how I did this?

 

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ole Jobe

In Corel, draw a circle with no border. Play around with the Fountain Fill settings to get the face you want. You will need a postscript printer in order to print the fade as a halftone.

 

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eric0524

That might be the problem, I have a Samsung ML-2510 and I don't think it is capable of post script printing. Thank you for your help. If I print to adobe PDF first can I work around this. I did what you said about the circle. When I went to print to adobe it has LPI what should that be set to? Are there any other setting I need change in there?

 

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out da box

Printing to adobe pdf will not help. To get halftones you will need a rip, ghost script, or a post script printer. There is a bitmap function in photoshop which will work if you're in a pinch. Make sure your graphic is at 720dpi when you convert to bitmap in photoshop. If you do a forum search, there's a lot of info on bitmapping in photoshop. Ghost-script tuts also.

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