So I recently learned how they used to make halftones for newsprints

>>969745
Okay, so I've learned they're just called halftone screens. I know I could do this digitally, but I want to do it the old analogue way for no reason.

>>969745
>>969827
Bigger discussion about this would be really cool. I've been making kind of an exploratory hobby of halftone silkscreen experiments. Wrote a couple of Gimp plug-ins to mess with myself.

As a contribution, some further reading about the big pitfall (or happy side-effect, however you look at it):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

You need contact screens. They used to be common, Kodak and others made them. Not sure where you could find them now.

>>969845
This being /diy/ I bet there's a way to improvise screens if OP's not looking for professional quality at the moment.

>>969847
They're hundreds of dollars on ebay, so I'm sure that would be the best option.I can't even find images of the contact screens themselves. If we could get a good look, we could figure out how to emulate them.

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/archive/index.php/t-108225.html

Dot screens can be used as a substitute.