Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
I like the laser idea a LOT... especially that one from that company in germany or switzerland...pretty cool stuff.
I would love to know if laser or led cts can give better resolution. If yes, how come many don't pick that option?
Just for giggles, I printed 100 lpi the other day to see how they would come out and how much of a dot gain tonal curve would be needed to maintain the openings of the shadow tones. It came out super smooth like a continuous tone image. It looks beautiful. I get all warm and fuzzy inside when I see results like this. Dots were still there under a loop, and still very clean and clear but visibly merged together near the 90-99 range with the naked eye. To give you an idea, If you wanted to try and screen print this on paper and hold the small dots you would use a 500 mesh count. I'm just digging a little to see where the limitations are. For example, in this case, I've opened up the curve so much in the shadow tones to do this 100lpi that you reach a point of diminishing return. In other words, I've pretty much maxed out my curve in that shadow range of 95-99% at 100 lpi range. Pretty cool to achieve that.This was off of an STEll with 3 heads. This D2 ink is truly super opaque. At that small you would think the ink is too thin of an application but this would still expose well, holding everything with a good dual cure. You would need a very this coat of emulsion to maintain that small of a dot in the emulsion with dual cure but people do it for flat stock printing. I think it could be ideal for shops doing screen printed poster prints intended for super fine printing if there are some that still do this. Even with flat stock printing, back in my day we were only doing 85lpi. I assume most are all digital full color these days anyhow.