Re: Stochastic in magazine printing
Re: Stochastic in magazine printing
- Subject: Re: Stochastic in magazine printing
- From: Vic Paredes <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:25:45 -0400
Stochastic is definitely picking up steam in large volumes of print
work. If you're a magazine freak like me you would've noticed it
sooner. Heck, even my Restoration Hardware catalogue is printed
stochastic.
On 10/20/05, Matthew Kelly <email@hidden> wrote:
> When the world was analog, stochastic may have been ahead of its
> time. The limitations of film and plate inhibited its usage. Just
> the physics of moving air molecules out between the film and plate
> during drawdown had problems.
>
> Now with digital plates, and better algorithms, stochastic's time may
> have come. It may have a real future with hexachrome.
>
>
> Matthew Kelly
> Technical Supervisor
> Litho Press, Inc.
> 4334 Milling Road
> San Antonio, TX 78219
> 210-541-0707
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>
>
> On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:43 PM, Marco Ugolini wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --------------
> > Marco Ugolini
> > Mill Valley, CA
> >
> >
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