Halftoning / Screening

ColorCore provides the core halftoning and color management services to enable high quality Stochastic Screening, Error Diffusion and ordered screen generation.

Software Imaging Stochastic Screening (SISS)

SISS delivers print quality comparable to Software Imaging's error diffusion (itself already providing faster output of much better quality than typical OEM error diffusion algorithms), but with the tremendous throughput associated with stochastic screening. In terms of raw halftoning processing SISS delivers speeds that are more than 5 times faster than error diffusion.

Real world tests clearly illustrate that SISS paves the way for dramatic improvements in page throughput, enabling OEMs to meet the ever increasing demand for both quality and print speed among today's printing device users.

The chart above compares the time taken to print documents to file, using both SISS and a market leading error diffusion method. The figures show that across a full range of document types the use of SISS in the workflow results in prints at least twice as fast.

High Quality Error Diffusion

ColorCore provides the error diffusion rendering service to PrintMagic/Sorcerer and is available for integration into third party print systems. Efficient algorithms bring the benefits of 12-bit per channel halftoning to a high performance 8-bit pipeline. The result is the elimination of visible steps in printed graduated areas that can otherwise be a particular problem in the printed highlights on glossy photo papers using standard 8-bit halftoning.

Better Ordered Screens

ColorCore provides a high speed ordered screen generator which allows ColorCore developers to generate quality screens, including support for elliptical dots and custom angles/sizes. In addition there is full support for third party AM and FM threshold array screens.

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