Could someone look into an .ai file for me?

[Prosperi-Tees]

Well I will put it in their court, pay the art fee or I auto trace and print as is.

[Chadwick]

It doesn't really matter that the cat isn't vector.
In fact, often it's better to get a bitmap from someone who doesn't
know how to make a vector anyway. ( I speak truth here )

Take and crop the un-needed black out of the cat.
Convert it to a greyscale bitmap at 300dpi, applying anti-aliasing.
( you could spend a few minutes retouching the bitmap if you would )
Now grab what's left, and the text, and convert that to a greyscale at 300 dpi.
Invert the bitmap.
Output through your rip.
I'm assuming you can have tones with discharge?
if not convert it to 1 bit and things get nice and ugly...you'll need to tweak the image a bit more.

No one ever sends camera ready art.
It doesn't exist, unless it's from someone in the same field.
( btw, I send out camera ready art tyvm...hit print, done )
I've got as many winners from 'working graduates of design' as the joe publics.

Just gotta figure how to roll it into what you need to make it work.
Daily..
hahhahhahhaahhaaaa.
 

[Prosperi-Tees]

Here is the trace in Corel. I bet they go for it.

[screenxpress]

Not too bad.

Here's one for comparison from Inkscape -

[Prosperi-Tees]

Thanks! I will post the outcome of this.

[Chadwick]

Why vectorize it though?
You have to invert it anyways, or, as it is, you can sit and click all the stray parts of white and still
have the big honking void ( which has no data in it ) of the black which you will have to fill anyways.
I must sound like a miserable old f*ck..what's a guy to do?
You need to isolate the white areas you are after.

No one answered my question yet...can you do tones with discharge on a per screen basis?
Or is it all still lame..?

Cheerz.

[jason-23]

i would have converted it into a monochrome bitmap myself.

[screenxpress]

I wasn't so much going for vector per se.  But when I enlarged that raster image, it got pretty pixilated to me.  I supposed you could apply a Gaussian blur to it, but taking to inkscape (or corel trace) would be my direction.

On the tones issue.  I pulled out one of my old ones that on the art had some tones and I could not detect a noticeable gradient.  My thought is that it does not come the same as on a sim process. 

[Prosperi-Tees]

i would have converted it into a monochrome bitmap myself.

How do you convert to a monochrome bitmap?

[Chadwick]

On the tones issue.  I pulled out one of my old ones that on the art had some tones and I could not detect a noticeable gradient.  My thought is that it does not come the same as on a sim process.

Thank you, so I guess you can't do ( proper ) dots with discharge.
Although, for what it's used for I don't suppose you need to anyway.

A monochrome bitmap is 1 bit, or black and white.
To convert something vector, or a mix of stuff to monochrome,
grab it all and convert to bitmap > 1 bit ( up in the bitmap menu ).