Quality Adds Up
If you can produce acceptable quality from your inkjet printer, you can save thousands
of dollars, avoid expensive print jobs and look like you spent big bucks when you didn't.
To get the BEST results - realistic color, sharp detail, smooth gradations - you need to
pay careful attention to your inkjet printing conditions and to the materials you use. The
payoff for your attention can be HUGE.
What is "acceptable quality"? Unlike beauty, "acceptable reproduction
quality" is not in the eye of the beholder. Acceptable quality means you cannot
easily tell the printing method by casually looking at the image. If you cannot tell the
method, then you can use the method best suited to your situation. Until quality inkjet
became available, there was non-inexpensive way to get acceptable quality for short-run or
fast turnaround color pages.
The Basics of Printing an Image
Long before computers, printers were re-producing photos by breaking them up into dots.
This early form of digitization was called "screening" because they literally
placed a grid screen over the image before photographing it to make printing plates. Each
cell of the grid or "dot" was converted to an amount of ink to be placed at that
location by the printing press. If you look at a black and white photo in a current
magazine with a magnifying glass you will see the dots. The dots trick the eye into seeing
a complete image. Color images are printed by making 4 passes through the printing press,
one for each of the four colors printers normally use. The digital age has not changed how
we see images on paper. Behind the scenes, computers have dramatically changed the speed
and cost of printing. The special skills that were handed down from father to son (sorry,
few women were allowed) for hundreds of years are now available to all in software that
dramatically reduce the skills required.
visit
Neato's website in the virtual music mall
Home Studio
Recording