Stochastic dot printing

[Steph Nitro]

http://www.gigposters.com/poster/895...y_&_Paste.html

this one... duh

[Andymac]

if you put a mezzotint filter on you get the lumpy dot effect.what kind of press have you got in behind that poster?

[Steph Nitro]

it's a 1978 "frenke" (German or Swiss manufacturer) solid as hell considering the volume of stuff it's seen going through it. I gotta re-weld some of the threading on the frame-clamp set up (I've been using bits of wood for the last six weeks to hold the screens in)
a complete overhaul is on my new x-mas wish-list...

and cheers! I'll give the mezzotint a go next.

[VonDada]

My screenprinting teacher told me to use the bitmap>random dither to get the look I wanted, but I ended up using halftones since I liked that look better.

He did some 150 on a 150 screen mesh and it came out pretty good, with minor dot washout.

This was for tshirts, though, not paper.

[fantasygoat]

My big problem with the Bitmap option is that it makes square dots. I'd like a filter that made round dots like the halftone filter.

[anteism]

How did the print go?

[IVARTON]

Originally Posted by fantasygoat

My big problem with the Bitmap option is that it makes square dots. I'd like a filter that made round dots like the halftone filter.

You can choose round, square, oval, lines, cross, blue clovers and green diamonds.


I used the india ink filter for a metallic gold and the defusion dither for the dark brown and got this awesome looking sepia color for me detroit cobras poster.

[fantasygoat]

That's on the Halftone one. Diffusion doesn't have any options.

[RichieGoodtimes]

I know how to do that magic.

I'd share but I enjoy when people get pissed that I won't and call me an asshole.

It's mindblowing simple and painfully obvious too!

[fantasygoat]

I've tried doing it at half resolution and then converting it back, but then you just get misshapen squares.