Nice printing and art work fellers, but Dan I know fm (square dots) are mainly use
in sim printing , but what about doing a 4 color process with fm dots whadda think?
is it possible how would it look.
Darryl
Yes, it's very possible. I've done it. You don't "need' halftones and angles in process printing.
For a while in the off set industry, it was pretty popular to use the FM dots aka Stochastic dots.
Then they let it fade away as it wasnt always as beneficial for them, but it stuck longer in the
screen printing world for a few more years and then faded away again.
It's best to be used on multi color jobs but for some reason, when I was doing it in 8,10 and 14
color jobs. I noticed the retail industry started using it in a 1 color gradation method on packaging.
I think maybe more so as a "design element". No sure on that. Any ways, It's popularity slowly
decreased but I like to keep it alive. In my opinion, it produced the best results for sim process
using the highest mesh and finest details (but like indexing,) I prefer only using it when I'm able
to mix %'s of 3 or more colors together in a design.
On this job for Mr Donnie Miller @ Miller Graphics, I sort of do the same thing here that I do on stochastic halftones. I made good use of blending colors to achieve other colors. Not large percentages of either color. Just a little. As you can see, Donnie was able to get some very unique colors our of this RED, BLUE and YELLOW. He's an excellent printer as well.
Regarding FM dots (stochastic dots), here is one that I did with Pierre, but in sim process using primary colors. You can see much of it is greens and pinks and beige. I think it was 230 resolution and 305 mesh. The dots were close
to a 2% dot in a 60 line screen throughout the art.
The one we did for SGIA (Blood Moon) was even higher than this. I think it was 260 ppi and 330
mesh. Probably close to a 2-3% dot in a 70 line screen. I really appreciate this type of work more
than the average person I guess. LOL.
Keep in mind, that even in the type here, (the orange type) is 100% solid pms 102 yellow + maybe
15-20% of the red PMS 032. It's so fine that it really blends in much more with the yellow type
printing wet on wet that it really looks like an Orange was used as a spot color.
By the way, this job was done via DTG originally for my first order. The customer liked it so much
that they wanted to up the order and do re-orders. So, I had to separate it for traditional printing
and at the same time, keep the over all look form the DTG.AS most DTG pritners know, this is not
easy and probably unachievable by the average printer. I think all of this art was printed with 6 colors.
1 Base white,
2 Yellow, 3 Red, 4 Blue 5 Black, 6Highlight white. I'll also point out that your registration
for high end work like this needs to be dead on.
He's a good printer, that Pierre.
