Question about grunge halftone technique

[andydiesel]

as a sticker printer i say good riddance to all that old school crap.

as a poster printer i did really like having fun with zip tone, rub on letters, rubylith, and darkroom effects.

[bdix]

not a single mention of "80 grit"

you fuxxers are slippin'

[andydiesel]

80 grit is hangin with CoCo™ in some digital graveyard.

[bdix]

maybe it's just me, but...

take a sheet of paper. "grunge" it up. scan it. print it. laugh at all the people dreaming they still worked in the stone-age.

[electronicthroat]

Mark most of the people on this site are too young to even have experienced the analog way of doing this stuff. Within the next few years Ruby and Amber will be gone. The process of using these materials yielded something that the people writing the photoshop code can't get. By the time they do get it everyone will be discussing the loss of the digital age to whatever comes next.

I agree. I wish I could have been around when it was done the analog way. Maybe I would actually have access to some of that equipment. But I don't and won't.

BTW, tube > solid state

[crosshair]

Graphic Albini-ism.

If all the analog fetishists with broad opinions about the inherent superiority of pre-technological means, actually produced art or music at a level where the difference could be discerned and let alone make a difference, we'd be in a cultural renaissance.

[jcooper]

yeah, what he said!

[loco]

Alone time ago back in 85-86 or so. I was trying to make a photo I took look like "The Smiths - The Queen is Dead" Album cover.



I did this with a stat camera but I think you can still do this with a sanner and output to film. After trying all kind of different ways, (exposures) I still was way off with it looking anything close to the photo of the album cover.

I final started making Xerox copies at different shades until I found something I liked. Then I made a halftone of the Xerox instead of the original photo and It looked alot like what I was trying for.

-loco

PS: An easy one is to make it a halftone (bitmap) 20% of final output then blow that up to 100%. Use a low dot size like 20 LPI or so

[seireyho]

trial & error

[squeegeethree]

They have a imagesetter output service for anyone taking a printmaking class at Parsons. Not that that's a help here. Funny, after not having thought much about Kodalith until this thread I just had a call from a friend asking if I knew where to get some.