The Dish on Dots

Agfa recently launched the inaugural “:Sublima Distinctive Marketing Awards” for printers who go out of their way to promote themselves and the great work they do, courtesy of :Sublima. It is critical for those who use :Sublima to make sure their market knows that it is no accident that they are providing high-quality print that few others can match.
ARTWORK SYSTEMS: Our Hybrid Screens are for flexo. We don’t promote them in the offset world, where benefits are tenuous, at best. It is true that a little bit of “stochastic” or “dot deletion” in the highlight of high ruling AM screens can help preserve grey levels. We’ve built this into our Paragon and Concentric screens at no additional charge. Our second order stochastic Organic Screening has been shown to produce superior results on press. Concentric is the easiest screening to differentiate from other technologies in the market: it’s the world’s first and only non-solid halftone dot. Concentric screens are AM screens, but instead of the traditional solid halftone dot, the Concentric screen is divided into rings. The color saturation and press latitude of 20 µ stochastic can be achieved using Concentric Screens with dots divided into 20 µ rings. Printers can achieve screen rulings 1.5x to 2x their current screen ruling.