Screen Printing Mesh Count & Halftone LPI Calculator
Determine the exact Mesh Count, Halftone Frequency (LPI), and Minimum Printable Vector Stroke Width for your garment ink system and emulsion stencil.
Prepress Specifications
Recommended Halftone Frequency
35 LPI
Metric Mesh: ~61T threads/cm
Min Printable Positive Vector Line
0.75 pt (0.26 mm)
Thinner strokes risk washout washout blowout
Min Printable Negative (Knockout) Space
1.00 pt (0.35 mm)
Prevents ink bleed & bridge closure
Tonal Reproduction Range
10% Highlight - 85% Shadow
Dots outside this range will blow out or fill in
Why Vector Spot Separations Outperform Raster CMYK
In garment printing, vector spot color separations produce crisper prints, higher opacity, and faster press setups than raster halftones. With clean vector shapes, each color plate is a 100% solid film positive with sharp mathematical contours. There are no fuzzy anti-aliased transition pixels that cause sawtooth stair-stepping or pinholing. SpotItLive delivers clean SVG, EPS, and high-DPI PDF files formatted for flawless film positive output.