"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
In all my seps, I compensate for dot gain on press. I also started out as a printer, so I do look at art differently than the majority of shop operators.Imo: Learn to compensate in your seps. Make sure you are printing (and printing) clean precise dots.Now..... For a shop that has artist turnover or whose skill level may not be up to par: I suggest adjust some in their linearization. But once you get an artist who can adjust their seps, or a shop who gets seps in from an artist who knows what they are doing - they will have to adjust their dot gain curve at the printer.... so now you have to change your curve depending on your artist/separator.My 2 cents
I agree, I see the linearization as the starting point, a fixed baseline or whatever you might call it, then adjust in the seps...Steve
Yeah, and then throw manual printing into this mess and the variables get even worse... In my shop, sometimes I print and sometimes my partner prints and we both push/pull the squeegee differently
One design on good t's and crap hoods?The trenches have voted for decades to make the seps/halftones/print parameters for the hoodies. The t's will end up not being as amazing as they can be, but the hoodies will look really nice. Easier to compensate for the fleece than to try and make the hoodies work with screens and halftones that are not ideal.Otherwise - 2 set ups.