Help with showing a half tone in the proof

[middletownink]

I am dumbing down this artwork for a job.  I am changing all the color to print black and would like to show the proof with the half tone look.  In the second pic I show the reduction in the black color but I am wondering if there is a way to show this with the dot look of half tones.  I don't want to mislead this guy in thinking that it will look like a solid gray.  BTW I am working in CS5 AI

[blue moon]

Import the image into Photoshop and convert to grayscale. Then use the filter/action that creates the halftone effect (this is what many use to create the halftones when the RIP is not available).

I don't know the name of the filter/action used, but certainly somebody here will chime in with it. You might even be able to find it somewhere on the forum.

pierre

[tpitman]

Photoshop:  Filter/Pixellate/Color Halftone.

It'll have to be a higher-resolution than the sample posted, as it comes out really coarse at the smallest available dot size.

[Sbrem]

open in Photoshop, convert to grayscale (Image/Mode/grayscale) then to Bitmap (Image/Mode/Bitmap). In the dialog box that comes up, leave your input resolution alone, up the output resolution to 1200 (this makes better dots, even from a low res image, but you can't really enlarge the image) Under "Method" set it for Halftone screen, they set your line count and angle. I couldn't get the file to upload, so here's a link to my Photobucket page
You can see the difference the higher output resolution makes on the final image...

Steve