Digital BW, The Print

> Dear Austin, When I asked about the rosettes you changed that
> name to moire
> and I went with it. They are two different things and we were
> talking about
> two different things.

Yes, I thought you were calling the moire pattern rosettes, but I know what
you are talking about.  Sorry, since my head is in B&W (as well as what this
forum is about ;-) I think in terms of B&W only these days...my mistake.

> When the exchange (I've included at the bottom)
> changed from rosettes to moire that is where I got confused. You said that
> if I was getting moire patterns the halftone algorithym was not
> very good...

That is true.

> but I was referring to rosettes (not moire, sorry). So I'm going to re-ask
> my question to avoid confusion. ;-)
>
> Can you print from offset press without visible rosettes while using an
> ordered dither... but without using stochastic screening?

I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head.  I only worked on
B&W, not color.  I certainly have reference material I can take a look at
for you.  It'll probably be in "Principles of Color Proofing" by Bruno, but
that's a bit of an old reference...but it's a good start, I'd say.