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OUR DOTS ARE FAT.
T Shirt Farmer:
--- Quote from: Sbrem on February 25, 2021, 10:26:55 AM ---I also fall outside of the young whippersnapper category, I made our first halftones with a contact screen and tray developed films. It's so easy now compared to that. We'd make 3 different exposures on the film, a highlight bump (no screen) then the main exposure, followed by the shadow exposure, which was done by exposing the film to a 7 watt darkroom light with the yellow filter on it, which would help open the shadows. I got a lot of good info from the Kodak Halftone Guide. I'm OK with today's results, not to mention we don't have a process camera and darkroom anymore.
Steve
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You win Steve, I thought I was the oldest fart in this place opened shop 1985, I too had a strip printer, camera and darkroom for developing. Awesome memories indeed!
mk162:
--- Quote from: T Shirt Farmer on February 25, 2021, 07:21:49 PM ---
--- Quote from: Sbrem on February 25, 2021, 10:26:55 AM ---I also fall outside of the young whippersnapper category, I made our first halftones with a contact screen and tray developed films. It's so easy now compared to that. We'd make 3 different exposures on the film, a highlight bump (no screen) then the main exposure, followed by the shadow exposure, which was done by exposing the film to a 7 watt darkroom light with the yellow filter on it, which would help open the shadows. I got a lot of good info from the Kodak Halftone Guide. I'm OK with today's results, not to mention we don't have a process camera and darkroom anymore.
Steve
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You win Steve, I thought I was the oldest fart in this place opened shop 1985, I too had a strip printer, camera and darkroom for developing. Awesome memories indeed!
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We're 1985. My dad had to go to the copy store and get vellum printed there. We had a good stat camera, but the amount of lint and trash in the films was still crazy.
It's amazing to think of how far we've come.
3Deep:
Dang 1985 I was just getting out of high school getting ready for college and I thought I'm old in this biz, guess I still have tons to learn, great post so far...but I will say most of my customer base could care less about much we put into it to get a great print...they are looking for cheap
zanegun08:
I was born in 87,
It's just t-shirts,
I'm not sure what this post is about anymore other than a smaller dot definitely will give a better looking print.
However I would've done this differently as I don't think your print quality in the red and spot colors looks so good. Without knowing how many pieces it is, just that it needs to be done in 5 colors (wait is it actually a 5 color press, or 6 color with a flash?)
This is what I'd do in revolver mode, although maybe you have a workhorse with a flashback so this would be different.
Revolution 1
1 ) White Base
Flash
Revolution 1
1 ) White Base
Flash
2 ) Green
3 ) Blue with halftones for the inside of the money
4 ) Box Color
5 ) Black with halftones for the shade on box and probably a little on the inside of the money
Could inverse out some of those halftones from the solids since you are going to be wet on wet for 4 colors. The only thing is in this print order that would suffer is the highlights in the eyes as I'd prefer a spot white to make that look sharper.
To be honest I try to avoid halftones as much as possible, as I don't like mixing spots and halftones, I like either a full sim process, or full spot colors.
But at the end of the day, if what you are doing you are happy with, then keep doing it. I wouldn't be happy with the print you posted quality wise, the print looks rough and just not nice. Sometimes I think it'd be better to just reduce a color out of the image, like maybe drop the box color, add a spot white, and make it a nice solid sharp print. You could also do the same and drop out some base in areas to have a better print as well.
Many ways to skin a cat, and what I think is quality you may think is not, so really at the end of the day if your customer is happy I'm happy.
blue moon:
--- Quote from: zanegun08 on February 26, 2021, 03:46:09 PM ---I was born in 87,
It's just t-shirts,
I'm not sure what this post is about anymore other than a smaller dot definitely will give a better looking print.
However I would've done this differently as I don't think your print quality in the red and spot colors looks so good. Without knowing how many pieces it is, just that it needs to be done in 5 colors (wait is it actually a 5 color press, or 6 color with a flash?)
This is what I'd do in revolver mode, although maybe you have a workhorse with a flashback so this would be different.
Revolution 1
1 ) White Base
Flash
Revolution 1
1 ) White Base
Flash
2 ) Green
3 ) Blue with halftones for the inside of the money
4 ) Box Color
5 ) Black with halftones for the shade on box and probably a little on the inside of the money
Could inverse out some of those halftones from the solids since you are going to be wet on wet for 4 colors. The only thing is in this print order that would suffer is the highlights in the eyes as I'd prefer a spot white to make that look sharper.
To be honest I try to avoid halftones as much as possible, as I don't like mixing spots and halftones, I like either a full sim process, or full spot colors.
But at the end of the day, if what you are doing you are happy with, then keep doing it. I wouldn't be happy with the print you posted quality wise, the print looks rough and just not nice. Sometimes I think it'd be better to just reduce a color out of the image, like maybe drop the box color, add a spot white, and make it a nice solid sharp print. You could also do the same and drop out some base in areas to have a better print as well.
Many ways to skin a cat, and what I think is quality you may think is not, so really at the end of the day if your customer is happy I'm happy.
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you are missing the red!
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