Halftone Dot Size

[dahmitdesigns]

Good Morning Everyone!

We have a project we are getting ready to print using Cream ink (no base) on a heathered military green t-shirt.

Part of the design contains halftone tone art and our printer is concerned that the dots our rip is generating are too small and will fill in when he prints it. Anyone know if there is way to make the actual dot size larger? Currently we use Accurip Black Pearl.

Any help would be great!

[cbjamel]

Change the lpi say from 45lpi to 35lpi, to change the percentage 45% to 35%. are a couple ways in ai or in ps or corel.
Shane

[Dottonedan]

What Shane said.


In addition, FYI, A higher number such as 85lpi, actually means the dots will be smaller. It's easy to get confused when first trying to understand the dot count and think that larger numbers represents (larger dots). It's just the opposite.
(We are fitting and counting rows of dots) in a square inch or a fixed space. So 85lpi means there are 85 rows of dots in a line.  Fewer lines, means the results are providing LARGER dots to fill that same space.

[dahmitdesigns]

Thanks guys! Appreciate the help!

[Colin]

Quick question:

Are you letting accurip set your LPI?  Or have you unchecked the box in accurip for "lock screens"?

Its not uncommon to overlook that.

[Sbrem]

You could also think of line count (LPI) like fractions. A 1/4" is twice the size of an 1/8" right? So 30 LPI dots would be twice as large as 60 LPI dots...

Steve

[dahmitdesigns]

Currently I have the lock screens checked. It does still let me change the angle and frequency though. Do you recommend not doing that? For most jobs that I run film for I don't have a problem with it being checked.

Thanks for all the tips! They are very helpful in figuring out printing halftone! Who knew it could be so tricky lol

[Dottonedan]

AccuRip will over ride any changes you do in Illustrator in the Print separation setup page if you have it locked. That is the purpose of locking it. If you want the control in Illustrator and change up line screens often, then you might want t leave it unchecked.