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Offline tonypep

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Halftone fades with discharge
« on: September 07, 2012, 10:24:55 AM »
Heres a good example of how discharge can be more than just soft; but more vibrant and visually appealing. This is a 45 line halftone fade using just two screens of DC no underbase. This fadewould be sloppy and the dots would be more apparent if this was executed traditionally.


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Re: Halftone fades with discharge
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2012, 11:33:18 AM »
That's real clean Tony... I thought it was split fountain till I zoomed in on it.

Very impressive!

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Re: Halftone fades with discharge
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2012, 11:37:37 AM »
Thanks Gil but was stupid easy. The camera flash didn't quite convey how bright it is but I used the Sericol flos right out of the bucket.
And you're right it was engineered to simulate a split fount with consistency on large runs.

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Re: Halftone fades with discharge
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2012, 11:42:40 AM »
Amazing!

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Re: Halftone fades with discharge
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2012, 11:55:20 AM »
The only thing I can see is on "THE" it looks a little faded on the edge. Is that on purpose or is it the camera or did it not get saturated in that area?

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Re: Halftone fades with discharge
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2012, 12:00:23 PM »
That was the first test print and the ink did not clear perfectly. When stopping for lunch etc always throw a few scraps on ahead of thew run to get things running smoothly

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Re: Halftone fades with discharge
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2012, 12:42:43 PM »
Very cool.  I can't wait to get my new-to-me used gas dryer installed so I can run my wb stuff at a non-painful speed!  There are times when wb and discharge could REALLY make a job easy if they dryer can keep up!

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Re: Halftone fades with discharge
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2012, 02:53:58 AM »
It`s work like yours that make me wonder why I still mainly use palstisol  instead of waterbased and discharge inks.
What was the mesh count on those screens?

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Re: Halftone fades with discharge
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2012, 06:15:19 AM »
230/ 50 DPI