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September 28, 2021
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Achieving Realistic Halftone/Stipple in AI
- September 28, 2021
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Hi, we have been looking for a solution to achieving a more realistic halftone or stipple effect on vectors and images in Illustrator.
We do Flexographic Printed cartons here as well. The printing process sometimes has us using a stipple or halftone of colours. We usually print 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 colour jobs in Flexo but need a better representation of Stipple and Halftone on our Proofs and Print Cards. Effects/Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone is not a good enough or clean enough representation of halftone in Illustrator. I have attached 2 examples of what I mean - sorry if the PDF is low res but we’re looking for round dots. Perfectly round dots that represent halftone.
As you can see the darker the color the larger and closer the dot. 100% color = solid, 10% of colour = is barely any stipple. We use this in a range of different vectors and placed images like jpgs. It’s mainly used in vectors though. If there is a 1 colour logo that has Yellow 112 U but the centre of the logo is 40% of Yellow 112 U then only the centre would be stipple/halftone - this is how it will look on the physical printing plate we make. As you can see from the screenshot the magenta is all % of a spot magenta and there are 3 different ranges of that colour aside from the solid which results in 3 different looking stipples. Basically, need a solution that will turn images (jpgs/pngs) and % of Spot Colours to stipples/halftone.
Spot Colour: 10% (minimal stipple) to 50% (stipple) to 90% (heavy stipple) 100% (solid color no stipple)
Image/jpegs/pngs: All different stipple values based on the image and ink % around the image.
We have been looking for a solution and we've found that these forums are great for knowledge so far so any help is appreciated!
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