Custom Screen Angles?

[Cory]

is there anyway to do custom screen angles in Rampage? have a screen printer wanting specific angles.

looking at the technotes it seems like it can't be done...

[mwc]

Unless you have other screening options installed, the RCS and Standard are the only options (and you only have 5 preset options-- as you know)
-Mike

[Lammy]

for silk screen work the best solution I found was to rotate the he artwork by the desired angle, then output it at 90°. When it's cut back down to square you'll have the right angle. It just takes more film to do.

[Mikie]

One place I worked, we bought a custom screen angle from them. Give them a call and see what they can do.

[jim_t]

yes you actually can do this in Rampage. It will depend on the lpi you need to output. Generally a screen printer will be able to use output film but your output has to be 7* difference than that of an offset shop. you will most likely output at no higher than 150 lpi and this is at the high end of the scale - if it's not 4/C screen printing then it will be between 40 - 65. Additionally your dot shape will impact the screen printer big time as the shapes that are used for offset don't always work well on a screen press due to the nature of how it prints. Check and see what screen mesh he is planning to use this for as that will also have a big impact on what you can attempt to give him. Of course your calibration will be off if you've never output at that low of a line screen.

Screen Printing is a whole different animal when it comes to output.