Digital BW, The Print

Mark,

I believe Dan Margulis' Color Theory list could be very helpful -- lots of
people who know their dots:

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Todd

> I am scheming on doing a small promo piece that's very large,
> and very cheap. I'm outputting a digital file directly to this giant
> "xerox machine" that's used for copying blueprints. Page size will
> be about 24x36". It's like a very low-tech
> magazine/diary/travelogue thing.
> 
> Question: I sent a file to it yesterday that started with a tiff file
> greyscale, converted to Bitmap, and "Diffusion" type. The screen
> representation of diffusion seemed much tighter dots than the
> Halftone choice. But today when I saw the proof, the
> shortcomings of the machine showed through -- there were
> these "toner line" inconsistencies. My thought is that if I could
> "coarse up" the line screen, it might compensate for the toner
> lines.
> 
> Does anyone know what effect changing those Halftone settings
> has? Does anyone know the roughest possible setting?
> 
> Thanks in advance.