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Edit: Do you know if vanderlee's works on CS6?  The compatibility chart only says up to Photoshop 5...

It was! I have been on quite the Google hunt before I decided to go find some photoshop experts to ask!  I had messaged a few other people with blogs about halftone dots / rosettes, screen-printing, etc.  All of them pretty much told me I had to go spend a few thousand on a RIP and compatible printer if I wanted to make dots...  I haven't actually bought Vanderlee's yet, I just returned home from a weekend adventure and will certainly be picking up both of those plugins you suggested when I get paid next Friday, my funds for the printing project are tapped until then :frown:.   I am slightly confused on what VanDerLee's filter does; did you just apply the filter effect to the halftone-image I provided and drag the large-dot slider to the left?  Or did you just re-create a very similar halftone gradient from a new grayscale image?  Also, I assume when you say the filter is B&W only you are talking grayscale and not tiff/bmp?

Do you know of any other similar photoshop plugins I might want to pick up, or you would recommend for someone working with inkjet printing, calibration ,screen-printing, and hard-proofing without a RIP?  I am generally just messing around as a hobby, and am not going to spend thousands of dollars, at least not right away :lol:.  I recently picked up a 2008 Epson Artisan 810 photo-inkjet printer from craigslist for $40, it really is an a high quality photo-printer but I don't think it has a postscript chip and I couldn't find any compatible RIP software, I'm not sure if something like AccuRIP would work... It isn't on the supported printer list, but lots of very similar Epson printers are.  I primarily picked a semi-old Epson Artisan because they are very easy to modify with a CISS (continuous ink supply system), $40 will get you the entire system and $20 of ink will last many months of heavy printing, probably years of average use.

Again, thank you for all the input and support on this!  Hopefully I'll be able to contribute back once I make it beyond being a photoshop noob.