Discharge gradient blend?

[IntegrityShirts]

Your setting in illustrator are similar to mine when I printed this:



Gradients had to overlap by quite a bit before you get any completely filled in dots and this print wasn't supposed to have a "solid" orange area, just a smooth transition.

When going between two non white colors I can see why playing with the sliders is good. But going from a color to white would seem easier/quicker to just put a solid white down and print red over it, I mean it's water-based so it won't have any different feel at the end of the day!

If you really have time to play with it, expose a couple screens with it BOTH ways and compare lol I'd be interested to see the difference!

[ScreenPrinter123]

Being that white will be the last of three colors (Due to pickup on the screen) I would have to do a solid red underneath the white which I am afraid would not result in an opaque white at the top of the text but a pink tinted white because of the solid red underneath the solid white.  I will burn two red screens one with the slider pushed 20% and one at 40% so that I can compare and hopefully have a good idea of where I should be for next time.

[NoDirectionNick]

Can someone explain the "Crush screen" to me a bit? I haven't ventured much into the DC world but want to give it a go in the next week or so. I believe the crush screen was explained in a previous topic, but I could be wrong.

[NoDirectionNick]

Never mind never mind! I found it in a previous thread. Carry on..

[Rockers]

How would you sep this in illustrator to get a good blend?  Currently just a gradient in illustrator using red and white spot colors.  I want to avoid the black shirt showing through so I don't know if I should overlap them by duplicating the text and sliding the gradient location slider for each color in order to that they overlap more.  I also remember TP mentioning something about inverting (not the correct word but I cannot remember what word he used) the halftones and did not know what he was talking about (I wish I could say this was the only time that was the case!)

Here is a Youtube video  that gives you an idea on how to create interlocking halftones.

Introduction to Halftone Interlocking and 45-Degree Offset

[kingscreen]

Here's a DC gradient we did this week. I did the seps with the lighter green solid and the darker green halftone at only 45lpi. Both 200 mesh. DC white on 155. Printed light green, dark green then white; wow.

[tonypep]

Nice. Notice that, even at 45lpi the blend seems seamless.
 Plastisol bad.