Fadedot

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How Fadedot works

It prepares a design for DTF printing. Parts of the artwork close to the shirt colour fade into the shirt as halftone dots, so less ink goes down and the print feels softer. It follows the Photoshop poster workflow step by step.

What happens when you open a design

  1. Sized for print at your printer's resolution (300 or 360 DPI). The design is placed on an artboard (4500 × 5400 px by default, 15 × 18 in at 300 DPI), in the centre, and the halftone is always made at the size you print.
  2. Greyscale and Levels. The black point removes faint haze; the white point decides what prints as solid ink. Everything in between becomes dots.
  3. Halftone screen: 33 lines per inch, 26°, round dots.
  4. Mask. The dots cut out the original colours, so colours stay at full strength and everything else is transparent.
  5. Clean-up. Very faint tones and tiny specks that would not survive printing are removed.

What you adjust

Export

A transparent PNG of the whole artboard at print size, tagged with its DPI and sRGB colour. Every pixel is fully solid or fully clear, which DTF needs to avoid a hazy white underbase.

Test print sheet saves a 9 × 9 in calibration print at the selected printer's DPI: white tone ramps at 30, 35 and 40 LPI and two angles, the smallest dots, lines and gaps in mm, fine text, a glow and an unscreened control. Print it once at 100% on the real printer and film. The lightest ramp step and the smallest dot and gap that survive pressing show how far the settings can go.

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