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1. #Illustrator or corel draw for screen prining how to
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One common example: HP PostScript laser printers have an "enhanced resolution" mode (which effectively "overlaps" printer spots to simulate higher-than-actual resolution). But they can, of course, be "ignored" or over-ridden by a particular printer's RIP. The haltone ruling settings in AI's print dialog are document-specific. So do you know how old is the computer and printer? Everything depends on what printer do you have. Today, you have to see how much memory the Printer have, what level of Postscript, does it have the new USB3, etc.Ī 300-600 DPI laser printer can usually only print at an LPI of 50-65. Old versions of Illustrator and CorelDraw had this feature because the printer did not have any PPD software. Then again, Illustrator does not have control of my LPI, is my printer and the PPD installed that actually determine the output of the artwork (see attached JPEG)

#Illustrator or corel draw for screen prining driver

This can creates problems if the laser printer is not 100% compatible with the newest driver version.

#Illustrator or corel draw for screen prining software

You have to ask your self how old is the laser printer and the computer that the screen printer is using with a software that is from 1987. I have at home a 1200 DPI printer that comes with PPD driver that allows me to choose LPI (Now my printer is 5 or 6 years old, and I am using Ai CS3). If you going to output from a laser printer, there are lot of factors at play. Illustrator can print separations, but not dot shapes. This, as far as I know, cannot be done in today's Illustrator. Otherwise, you're going to need a fairly expensive RIP application that can output dot-by-dot separations on your output device. I find Photoshop a little more flexible in that you can assign whatever frequency you want and assign the screen's dot shape and angle and, then, print 1-bit line art seps. Keep in mind, the silkscreen mesh determines what halftone frequency to use.

#Illustrator or corel draw for screen prining pro

Now, I believe you need some kind of third party solution like Acrobat Pro or Photoshop. I was able to print seps out of Quark, too. Screens are usually created in the RIP and, in the case of Illus 6, the RIP was built into the printer as a hardware RIP. I remember using Illustrator 6 to output separations to my Postscript Level 2 inkjet ( 600dpi ) which results in 56 lpi screens that were inadequate at best because of the low printer resolution. This has been a frustration I have with Adobe who created Postscript Level 3. But this type of questions you can have a better respond is your post at Design Forums - Print Design: Sometimes is better to go with solid Pantone colors when you are printing t-shirts. See attached JPEG file to compare printed half tones with computer half tones (Output was 133 LPI) Specially if the files was output with a low LPI. With native Adobe Illustrator artwork (meaning no image placing) you do not have to worry about LPI, DPI (Dots Per Inch) or resolution.īe aware that when you print the artwork, you will able to see the dots instead of a smooth screen.

The output of the image is control by the imagesetter (the machine that makes the negatives) and not by Illustrator, CorelDraw, Freehand, Xara Xtreme, etc.

So, Can I do this or do I need to tell my associate to keep using CorelDraw! 7.Īdobe Illustrator gives the freedom to output the artwork at any LPI or DPI you wish (The Typical LPI for offset printing ranges from 85-133 lines per inch)

#Illustrator or corel draw for screen prining how to

When I was asked by a local shop how to do this task, I responded, (Oh I'm sure its just a setting that needs to be set.) Well, not so. I like Illustrator and have invested hundreds of hours learning and promoting it's virtues. Other software packages make this task a no brainer. Moving the files into Photoshop may work but fundamentally speaking PhotoShop in my opinion is for constant tone images or Photos, and it seems counter productive to add in a extra step (and software) to the work flow. If I use spot colors like PMS Cool Gray and Black, no change. If I set the Gray to 50% and the Black to 100%, still no change.

The simplest example would be to get Black & Gray with one screen. Just to reduce confusion, often a silk screen printer will try to get two colors for the price of one. In the print menu the separation menu has only very fine settings available (The lowest is 56 lpi/300dpi) which if selected makes very little to no difference in the dot patterns. I have read several posts on the subject and still there is no definitive answer. What is the short answer to, "Can Illustrator allow the user to control the size of halftone dots?" Just to be clear, for silk screen, the dots must be course.