CAN I ACHIEVE THIS GLOW?

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CAN I ACHIEVE THIS GLOW?

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Hey Everyone!

My name is Justin and I'm new to the board. I have a problem that hopefully some of you could help me with. I'm doing a shirt to commemorate VHS tapes and I have a blue glow around the VHS. Now when I say glow, it doesn't glow in the dark...the design has a heavenly glow around the VHS. I want it to be AS CLOSE as I can get it to the design. Normally, I would get the glow using a half tone, but I did it that way and it looks like crap and totally loses the desired effect. When it is halftoned, all of the dots make it look very busy and messy. I know I've seen shirts before that have that clean glow to them. Can anyone recommend anything? Is it possible to screen print this glow or is another printing method needed? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Halftone is the way.
Maybe your DOT SIZE or LPI is incorrect. Did you use ELLIPTICAL DOT?

Let us know your settings and we will dissect them for you
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Glow is a common website effect, Fireworks has a button for it, Illustrator should be able to do it easily.
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You need to do the halftone at least at 35 lines/inch (45 if your using an imagesetter). The dots need to be elliptical at 45 degrees. You'll need to use a 305 Yellow mesh frame. Have to be print with a high opacity ink, in other worlds no white base. And when printing, mix some Fluorescence cyan (blue, I will recommend Union Ink) to your ink, in order to make it look brighter. This should do the trick. You might want to add some soft hand additive to the mixture too.
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Simple halftones like that one are fairly easy and you should be able to pull 33 Lpi on 110 mesh screen (i do it all day)

305 mesh is rarely needed for the common commercial or hobby printer.
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I'd be looking at 55lpi + to avoid excessive graining.
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