John M. wrote:

>> your digital printer does use a halftone screen for anything
>> other than line graphics. It is built in.
> 
> I don't know of any inkjet printers that actually can generate a
> traditional halftone screen.


They don't. At least not according to Ctein. A halftone screen is regular
dots of different sizes. Inkjet printers a pseudo-random pattern of the
same-size dots using a dithering algorithm to produce intermediate tones,
what they're now calling "stochastic printing" in press work.

--Mike
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