How do I accomplish this?
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- vaxorcist0
screenprinting often has a edgy rattiness to it if the materials are not completely flat and clean and such....adds to authenticity, but may freak out some perfection-oriented clients...
- pauli0
Okay, here are the formal instructions.
Im gonna try it, and post my results.
If anyone wants to try it, here is how its done:"Yes this was more than likely screen printed. This type of print is actually really easy to do. This would be a one color print that has been broken into halftone dots. In order to screen print something like this you would need a RIP software to break that image up into Halftone dots. Then you would change your image into a grayscale image and print it through the Software. Then you would use a 230 mesh count print with a water-based ink."
- letterhead0
Screenprinting these graphics on cardboard is no problem. HOWEVER, those images you posted are photoshopped interpretations of how the firm/designer wishes them to look. The final product would not look as crisp as the photography you posted.
- are you saying the pics are photoshoped not real printed pieces?Dodecahedron
- exactly. this is fairly common practice for portfolio imagesletterhead
- that would explain why they seem so crispDodecahedron
- What Im saying is: yes you can accomplish this but the photos you posted are photoshopped for some reason or another.letterhead
- yes, that would explain why they are so crispletterhead
- loldopepope
- how do you know this btw? just guessing?Dodecahedron
- xcm0
It's screenprinting, no doubt about it. They just converted the images in halftones. I did this a few times. You can accomplish that in photoshop but i prefer using Vectoraster.
- monNom0
- http://www.youtube.c…prophetone
- I had this sticker. (fond memories)monNom
- Dodecahedron0
what did I say . . . pats self on back
- nb0
Definitely can be done with photo emulsion.
- pauli0
So the designer says it was accomplished through Photo-Emulsion.
Im still skeptical.- because you obviously know more than the creators of it. perhaps they're liars!Dodecahedron
- 3 posts up...bjladams
- MrT0
er ... Gavin Martin are printers, why not ring them up and ask them?
- bzsaw0
This is easy to do with screen printing... yes including the shades and detail.
Also look up the fancy term for it "seriograph". This is usually used when reproducing art with a high level of detail, colors etc.
- bjladams0
i've had plenty of photos screen printed- onto everything from coroplast to one guy that wanted his plane wings screened (as the weight of vinyl was not good) - as said above by using photo emulsion. it's not that difficult.
- Duane0
You can screen print quite a bit of detail with a halftone depending on the line screen. There are some caveats due to the substrate having an uneven surface (thus the banding on the images). Contact a silkscreen printer and ask them for advice, but it's completely doable.
- MrNibs0
I can't tell because I can't see the detail, but you don't think that is just a grayscale image converted to a halftone and then exposed onto the screen and inked with one color? It's pretty good detail they are getting off that screen print if it is.
- pauli0
Exactly, reinitialize. People don't like to think.
- reinitialize0
i see what he's saying.
it looks very detailed with a lot of varying shades.
perhaps i haven't been exposed to the wonders of screenprinting to enough about its capabilities?- there is a thing called "halftone screen" or just "halftone"pango
- liamh0
could be flat bed ink jet...
- pauli0
- pourquoi?Dodecahedron
- i think if it is screen printed as they say it would be done through a photo emulsionDodecahedron
- why not?noob12345
- monospaced0
Whenever I needed large screen prints I would go to the local art school's screen printing department with my artwork (on laser-printed transparencies), my substrate and $50 and have a student do it for me. Worked every time.
- fiver0
what the hell is going on in here?
- someone asking if a screen printer can do screen printsmonospaced
- thought so.fiver
- wow. i was still searching for the joke. Stopped here.shellie