halftoning a 2 spot gradient, illustrator > rip

[loco]

I just do the copy and paste from illustrator into photoshop then convert to a bitmap

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[colinpatrick.charles]

hi loco. I'm right there with you - that's what I ended up doing to get the job done just a little while ago.

droid, tried that with no success. and maybe it makes sense - in the offset world, overprint means literally printed on top of (like rich black is cmyk on top of each other - unless I'm wrong on this. feel free to correct), so it follows that the halftone dots would be printed 'over' each other. Whereas I'm wanting a 'side-by-side' printing, so overprinting seems a dead end. Or, at least my rip software is only able to recognize the 'overprint' command in an offset way.

[loco]

Sound like it's giving you CMYK seps instead of spot color seps. If I'm understanding you correctly

-loco

[Iron Canvas Studios]

seems like printing a split fountain would be the easiest route to achieve the desired results, minus the halftone dots of course.

[colinpatrick.charles]

iron, the boss doesn't allow split fountains cause it messes up his inks and can't be duplicated exactly for large runs and also cause he's a bit of a stinker.

loco, the results are consistent whether using cmyk or spot channels.

I think this might just be the way it is with halftones.

[Hrabovsky]

Change screen angles of the Spots so they are 30° away from each other.