Newspaper style printing

Hi

I've just designed an advert to be placed in a black and white free local newspaper.

The photos in the newspaper are made up of tiny (yet visable) black/grey dots. I've designed my advert in greyscale but I would like to see if it will succesfully translate to the newspapers printing style.

Any advice on how this affect can be acheived using photoshop 6 would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK

Sonars_UK wrote:

Hi

I've just designed an advert to be placed in a black and white free local newspaper.

The photos in the newspaper are made up of tiny (yet visable) black/grey dots. I've designed my advert in greyscale but I would like to see if it will succesfully translate to the newspapers printing style.

Any advice on how this affect can be acheived using photoshop 6 would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks in advance,

There are several ways to do this. The easiest is probablly to convert to bitmap mode, and specify a halftone pattern whose size and dot shape match that of your publication. This will give you a preview, but it's best to leave the actual conversion to them because of dot gain issues.

Another way is to use Photoshop's screen operation, starting with a suitable halftone pattern. This is a little trickier, but would allow you to generate a completely custom dot pattern, which has applications in some situation. If you do this, be sure you do understand the concept of dot gain, or your image will print much too dark.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:06:24 +0100, "Sonars_UK" <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi

The photos in the newspaper are made up of tiny (yet visable) black/grey dots. I've designed my advert in greyscale but I would like to see if it will succesfully translate to the newspapers printing style.

You could have a look at:

http://www.ransen.com/Repligator/Newsprint.htm

For your purposes the free demo is fine.

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"Sonars_UK" <sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote in news:3VEDc.878$sc2.116 @newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net:

Hi

I've just designed an advert to be placed in a black and white free local newspaper.

The photos in the newspaper are made up of tiny (yet visable) black/grey dots. I've designed my advert in greyscale but I would like to see if it will succesfully translate to the newspapers printing style.
Any advice on how this affect can be acheived using photoshop 6 would be greatly appreciated?

Simple. Output the file at the same lpi they print at. This requires a black and white postscript laser printer and you have to override any greyscale enhancement features it has.

Hi

I've just designed an advert to be placed in a black and white free local newspaper.

The photos in the newspaper are made up of tiny (yet visable) black/grey dots. I've designed my advert in greyscale but I would like to see if it will succesfully translate to the newspapers printing style.
Any advice on how this affect can be acheived using photoshop 6 would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK

The transformation takes place when the newspaper rips (raster image processor) the file. Don't worry, your image will be just fine. This is how all rips handle images. Printing to your own laser printer will give you an idea, but not a true representation.
Keith.

make a copy and convert the file to bitmap when the bitmap conversion dialog comes up choose halftone screen (choose 300 pixels per inch; 85 line screen and a round dot) this will look like hell on the screen but if you print it you will get a pretty good representation. Keep in mind that Newspapers use imagesetters so theirs will look better.

in article 3VEDc.878$, Sonars_UK at
wrote on 6/27/04 2:06 PM:

Hi

I've just designed an advert to be placed in a black and white free local newspaper.

The photos in the newspaper are made up of tiny (yet visable) black/grey dots. I've designed my advert in greyscale but I would like to see if it will succesfully translate to the newspapers printing style.
Any advice on how this affect can be acheived using photoshop 6 would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK