Digital BW, The Print

OOPS..it's "Hybrid Floyd Steinberg." 

"Adaptive" was his uncle.

Happy New Year!

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "djon43"
<djon43@y...> wrote:
>
> >"dither banding" ...lines that
> > appear in only certain zones... seems to be related to the dither
> algorithms.
> 
> Yes. Choosing among the dither options in QTR produces different
> effects on different papers. 
> 
> QTR's "adaptive floyd steinberg" dither (sheesh...miserable if you
> were a kid called "Adaptive Floyd Steinberg" !) works especially well
> with alpha-cellulose papers, vanishing micro bands that are evident
> with a loupe using other dithers when printing maximum-smooth (eg
> grainless medium format out of focus  middle skintones).
>