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Printing technology today: Vibrant images with no moiré!
Think of it like high-definition television, only much, much sharper. Stochastic printing uses extremely tiny dots of ink randomly scattered across the printing surface, similar to the grain in photographic film, to produce rich color halftones with exquisite detail.
Traditional color halftones use dots of varying sizes in a regular pattern. But the tiny dots in stochastic printing do not vary in size. A computer arranges the dots in a random pattern, with a greater concentration of dots in darker areas, and fewer dots in lighter areas. This is also referred to as Staccato printing, frequency modulation or FM screening.
By controlling the frequency of the dots to produce the varying amounts of color density needed, images and gradations appear closer to continuous tone. Textures within photos, such as herringbone fabric, reproduce without moiré patterns. Fine text and lines can be reversed from image areas with clarity. Solid areas of color no longer suffer from rosette patterns, and often look as though a solid PMS color was printed.
Here at McClafferty Printing, our stochastic technology is a perfect compliment to our computer-to-plate system, which provides high quality, on-demand printing with fast turnaround. We lead in this technology in the Philadelphia and Delaware Valley region. Call your McClafferty Printing representative for more details. 302-652-8112
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Stochastic printing defined:
Stochastic printing, also called staccato printing, high-definition printing, and frequency modulation (FM) screening, uses small (10, 20 or 25 Micron), same size dots in a random pattern, and varies the density of the dots to create an image that is closer to continuous tone than images which use traditional line screen halftones with dots of varying sizes.
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