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    Zines, booklets - Publishing help! InDesign and all that stuff.

    in Art & Design

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    Another question for those who know stuff about Photoshop, and copy machines.

     

    - What I want to do is print greyscale images.

    - Beforehand, I want to 'raster' them, so the image only consists of black dots / points, the denseness of which creating the different shades of grey.

    - As of now, I came across two ways of doing this in PS - 'Image' > 'Mode' > 'Bitmap' > 'Halftone screen...', and 'Filter' > 'Pixelate' > 'Color Halftone'.

    (which is kind of a different thing, but if that prints well it'd be an otion for me)

    - Basically I want to have a bitmap image, containing of only black and white dots / pixels.

     

    So I was wondering it would be a good idea to create a document in the excact size it will be printed later,

    and 'rasterize' it at the excact 'resolution' ("output"-dialogue in PS's 'Bitmap' menu) the copy machine prints it at.

     

    SO... do copy machines actually print at fixed, or 'native' resolutions?

     

    Sorry if this is explained a little circitous, but english isn't my native language..

     

     

    Thanks in advance for any help!

    Zines, booklets - Publishing help! InDesign and all that stuff.

    in Art & Design

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    Good thread, thanks to all people adding constructive input!

     

     

    I want to do a black & white zine, photos mainly,

    and I'd like the look and (haptic) feel to be 'blunt', 'deeply black',

    and definately the total opposite of glossy.

     

    Like this, basically:

     

    6060432104_47d059ab3d_b.jpg

     

    I do believe this is done with old, non-digital printers - the kind you in the states refer to as 'Xerox' machines?

    All the copy shops I went to have modern, digital ones, the prints look different.

    I asked a guy about it, he told me to get an old inkjet printer and use that at home,

    but i think it would look different & I would spend a fortune on those fucking catridges.

     

    Can someone tell me what kind of printers excactly I should search for?

     

    Is here somebody from Berlin, who can point me to a copyshop that has such an old machine?

     

     

    Thanks in advance, and have a nice day!

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