How would you print this?

[im_mcguire]

Im thinking 3 colors grey white and black?

Thoughts...?

Thanks everybody!

[Colin]

Yup.

Looking at it carefully, you have a couple tones of dark black.  Is that intentional?

[im_mcguire]

I think so. This is not my art, but yeah I think there are some darker tones along with the black.

[Sbrem]

I only see black and white (there's nothing darker than black) I figure the gray background is the shirt. If I wanted a 3rd screen, it would be like a 355 for a 90 - 95% halftone of the black for the ampersand so it wouldn't fill in after a few prints...

Steve

[3Deep]

I also see 2 colors black and white, looks like the art is distressed which give it a gray tone in the background if that's a grey shirts it's printed on, don't know if I would even use a 3rd screen for black just bump my black screen up to a 280 or higher to start with and see what I get.

[mimosatexas]

The & is a darker gray than the shirt but not black, and some of the distressing is gradients instead of hard edges, but I would only use two screens and halftone those areas at like 20% with the black to imply the darker gray.

[zanegun08]

I would print three colors, White, Black, Grey

I would combine the Ampersands and set 2017 onto one screen and print solid grey, then overprint some of the distress from the ampersands with the black.

I'd make the people and Baileys text all white so it pops better.

Depending on how much you like the customer, maybe split the black halftone from the solid black so you have four screens but three colors.  That way you could use a different black, or do the texture in water base and the foreground in plastisol so it has some shine and sets it off from the ugly distress in the background.