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But 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 imag
by actionfromafar 3y ago
But 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.