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.
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