Getting the hang of halftones

[galatieatthis]

Another local printer gave me the rundown for Creating/Designing halftones.
So I'm getting the hang of it.

I stick to printing, Not so much designing!

But check these out.

What do ya think?

[Dottonedan]

Looks pretty smooth. Halftone are never anything to be afraid of. It's almost like printing flat spot color, just very much smaller areas of spot color.

Once you find out all of the details on what to watch our for, halftones are a normal part of your every day process.

I think it would be beneficial to every printer who start out to put down a first print using halftones and solids in the same screen. Your going to do it, may as well start out doing it.


Nice job.

[tonypep]

Once you get the hang of it try two screens. Often when printing black solid vector in conjunction with halftones many use a low mesh black for solid areas and high mesh for halftones. Gives you more control.

[tpitman]

Once you get the hang of it try two screens. Often when printing black solid vector in conjunction with halftones many use a low mesh black for solid areas and high mesh for halftones. Gives you more control.

A lot more forgiving on a manual press. I always use two screens with a mix of halftones and large solids of the same color. Might seem like a crutch to some, but the end result is what's important.

[Command-Z]

These look great. Are they one color?

I like providing a black sep to crisp things up just in case the client wants it.

[galatieatthis]

They are all two color images.
But the halftones are all single colors(if i'm saying that right?)

Top one is white Underbase
& Black Halftones on top of it.
(it's on a Navy T), If it was a Black T, I would have just done white.

I believe the 2nd one is Hit/flash/Hit of white.
Then flash for the 2nd & toss a single hit of red on.

& the Bottom one was Single hit white.
& 2 hit's of orange.
I planned on doing a white underbase on the orange.
& for some reason, when burning, It warped the word "Widower"
On one of the screens, So they were WAY off.
So I just did multiple hits of orange & I was fine

[ScreenFoo]

I think they were more getting at having just one white or black screen with the halftones and solid areas, instead of a halftone screen and a spot screen.  The whole black over a white underbase thing can be pretty tricky, but it looks great.  Nice job, for sure--the title of the thread should be 'got the hang of halftones'.   

[galatieatthis]

Thanks for the kind words.

Well more so I was referring to the "halftoning" process.
To me printing halftones is a no-brainer, Just don't push to hard.
Or put to much weight on your squeegee & you'll be fine.

I don't handle much design work at all. It's just me, start to finish.
So I never ventured into any of that.
I push for the client to have the design print ready(like that ever happens)
& I've had dozens & dozens of people toss me photographs & say, "print this"
So eventually I just said.. I'm going to learn how to do these.
Another local printer(in a nearby state) helped me out via a computer screen sharing program.
Showed me the ropes & it seems to be working alright.

I've been taking on more design/editing responsibilities, just because I need to pull the job.
& most designers that handle the artwork I want to print. Have NO idea how to make them print ready.
From color separations, to halftones, to making a high quality image(which is sad)

Thanks.

I'm a bit new, Haven't even been printing 2 years. So these were a big step for me.

[tonypep]

They look quite good!