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Tip #90 Optimum Line Art Printing

How's the best way to screen line art behind typography?

There are several ways to approach this:

1. Screening the line art in your DTP program
2. Place a grayscale version of the art (at the gray color you desire)
3. Render in a drawing program as screened art. (Illustrator, Corel, etc.)

The best way is to let the DTP program do it for you.

Several years ago we illustrated that concept (see: DTG May, 1992) using the Quark line conversion function. By handling it this way you gain the flexibility of changing your screen frequencies easily -- and using various line conversion screens. You'll want to convert the line art to a TIF first.

The least desirable method is colorizing the object in a painting program to a "gray" color because you never know how the screen will eventually look when output. Additionally, the rastered version of the art will have anti-aliased edges, and therefore will not be quite as sharp as its vector counterpart.

This thread directly relates to #91 TIFS with Clipping Paths

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