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- From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression,comp.compression.research,comp.multimedia,sci.image.processing,comp.graphics,comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Question: difference in viewed and printed images
- Message-ID: <6017@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 21:00:29 GMT
- References: <1565@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <mack.715549997@deci>
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- Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- In article <mack.715549997@deci> mack@deci.cs.umn.edu (Dan Mack)
- writes:
-
- >In <1565@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> sc7@ukc.ac.uk (S.Chan) writes:
-
- >>I have printed some decompressed images on hardcopy and they don't
- >>look quite the same as that is shown on a monitor, specifically
- >>the effects of noise, sharpness and blocking effects. (a 2400dpi
- >>printer was used to print the 256-level grey scale images)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>I suppose there is a great difference between viewing pictures on
- >>screen and on paper.
-
- >The problem you are experiencing are due to the imperfect science of
- >gamut mapping.
-
- [summary of gamut mapping deleted]
-
- While what Dan writes is all true, it is not the problem in this
- particul;ar case as the images are greyscale.
-
- The problem is that the printer is not greyscale, and while 2400 dpi
- is a lot of resolution, you have to trade some for halftoning to
- simulate greyscales. If the matrix used is regular, you will get
- patterning which the eye is rather too good at picking up !
-
- You could try messing with the halftone screen frequency or the screen
- angle.
-
- Or you could do a randomised error-diffused dither yourself, and print
- that (the image will get bigger, though)
-
- --
- Chris Lilley
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