Digital BW, The Print

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From: <cj@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:29 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Two Amazing Things


> The 2nd amazing thing is when I thought about the fact that I'm
> printing BO, and how the printer changes the spacing between the dots
> to get the various shades.  It's one thing to do that at the upper end
> where you can see individual dots getting closer or further apart, but
> how does it do it down at the dark end?  How in the world does it make
> a solid tone, so dark there are no distinguishable dots, a bit darker
> when I change a value by a half an RGB unit?  Does it still "think" in
> terms of individual dot spacing, all of them ever closer together and
> overlapping, or does it know that at some point they are all
> overlapping and it just changes the amount of ink it lays down? 
> However it does it, it's incredible.

It uses 3 droplet sizes as well next to the stochastic dot distribution.

Ernst