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Stylized image binning algorithm, for the web
- actionfromafar 3y agoBut how do one create half-tone images which can print to a laser printer? Whenever I try, the printer itself adds its own toning. I just want to print an image where a black dot is exactly a black dot, not "fuzzed" by the printer.
- 082349872349872 3y agotry a pen plotter?
- ruined 3y agoyou can't, it's a laser printer. if it's black-and-white specifically, you may be able to improve slightly by switching to black-and-white mode. but if you want to design your own halftones, you need to be using a spot color process
- actionfromafar 3y agoI mean... why can't I. The printer is obviously capable of printing such patterns.
- yorwba 3y agoThe why is that you haven't reverse-engineered the printer internals and modified it to give you fine-grained low-level control over the printing process.
- actionfromafar 3y agoIf I made a font with dots it would obviously work, no reverse engineering needed.
- masfuerte 3y agoHave you looked at the printer's advanced properties dialog? (Assuming these are still a thing?) I haven't owned a printer in years but my last one (some kind of Epson) had options to control the half-toning.
- jdiff 3y agoMaybe try feeding it a vector instead of a raster then
- actionfromafar 3y agoNot sure how to feed a vector short of doing raw PostScript.
- jdiff 3y agoPDF is, or at least can be, a vector format. Or go for PostScript. EPS is a perfectly respectable format as well.
- 127 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone
- macNchz 3y agoReminds me of this tool I used 20 years ago to generate giant halftone posters for my dorm room walls: https://rasterbator.net/ https://rasterbator.net/
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- TuringNYC 3y agoThanks so much for sharing this. When I was 1yo (in the 1970s), my parents took me to Sears (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears) and had a "computer portrait" generated which looks like what you've done. They were so intrigued by this highly pixelated portrait, they had it on the wall almost 20yrs. It seems so commodity now, but these things were true novelties 40ish years ago.
- bddicken 3y agoYou are welcome.