The Difference Is In The Dots
The choices that you make regarding design images, paper selection, and a preferred printer will define the outcome of your printed piece. These factors can sometimes be overwhelming to some, but at Glenmore Printing & Imaging, we are here to help you every step of the way.
Glenmore's fleet of Heidelberg presses, along with the latest CTP technologies, ensure that your vision will be translated onto paper as you imagined it. At Glenmore Printing & Imaging we are continuously looking for new opportunities to make our printing process superior to other choices on the market. We are pleased to introduce our new Hybrid screening technology which combines traditional line screen (AM or amplitude modulated) with a tiny Stochastic dot (FM or frequency modulated)
The benefits of Hybrid screening are exciting, translating into sharper images for printed pieces. Traditional line screening (AM) can lose much of the information in images rich with highlight and shadow detail & stochastic (FM) screening comes with its own set of technical imperfections such as the appearance of "grain" in flat tones. Print jobs with full stochastic technology can take much longer because the customizability of a print job is taken out of the hands of the pressman, and often new plates have to be made to make minor changes in ink densities.
Glenmore's Hybrid screening technology represents an attempt to compensate for the shortcomings inherent in AM and FM screening and withdraw only the benefits of each process. The benefits of the stochastic high-resolution printing process are the exact rendering of fine detail throughout the tonal scale. The benefits of line screening are the smooth rendering of flat tones.
"Hybrid screening applies AM algorithms to midtones, and FM to highlights and shadows," says Stefan Congram, operations manager at Glenmore. "Hybrid screening lets you print highlights which truly fade to zero, and have precise control over subtle pastels and shadings previously nearly impossible to achieve in print production."
How this translates to your print job is that the images you have painstakingly modified, edited, and proofed will appear just as intended - crisp, clean, and rich in color.