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Charlie Facini gives step-by-step instructions for eliminating muddy prints in grayscale mode

Year
2018
Company
Freehand Graphics, Inc.
Author
Charlie Facini
Categories
Market Segment
3D
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In Mould
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Flag & Banner
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Textile
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Subject
Colour
Printing Type
Screen

One-colour printing is a bread and butter process for most screen printers, yet when an image is tonal instead of solid some printers produce unacceptable muddy prints.

Grayscale is the print industry term for printing a single colour screen (typically black) to reproduce a tonal image such as a photograph.

It's an effective use of a single screen when done well, and the basis for other creative techniques.

So how do you create a good tonal, single colour print?

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