Stochastic in magazine printing
Stochastic in magazine printing
- Subject: Stochastic in magazine printing
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:43:04 -0700
Just by pure chance, I happened to examine closely a recent New Yorker
magazine cover -- the October 10, 2005 issue.
I was quite surprised to see what I believe is stochastic printing.
See my web page for a gallery of images showing the cover, plus 2 portions
of it enlarged by about 500% (533.33%, to be exact). I outlined the location
of the 2 enlarged portions in cyan in the Oct 10 magazine cover image.
My web page is at:
<http://home.mindspring.com/~marcoug>
Strangely enough, the cover for the October 17 issue went back to
traditional 133 lpi halftone screening.
You can also view this more recent cover in the same web page, as well as a
portion of it that I enlarged by the same ratio of 533.33%.
I have thrown away older New Yorker issues, so I am unable to establish
whether stochastic is being used often in that magazine. In any case, in
this instance it was limited to just the outside cover (the inside was
traditional 133 lpi halftone screening).
I find this use of FM screening in commercial magazines interesting. I was
not aware of it having become so mainstream.
Anyone knows more about this trend?
Thank you.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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