Screening Options

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Fusion Screening Options

Fusion Systems International provides a full range of the industry’s most advanced PostScript Raster Image Processors (RIPs), for the Apple OS X and Windows operating systems.

Stochastic Screening (HDS): HDS is Harlequin's patent-pending stochastic, or 'FM' screening technology. HDS creates reproductions with increased image detail over conventional screening methods and offers complete freedom from both cross screen and object moirés.

HDS is ideal for reproducing subjects for which object moiré is a problem (such as scenes with fabric, venetian blinds, or picket fences) and for printing with more than four process colors. It also offers increased image detail and fewer press registration problems over conventional screens.

Purely random screening methods cluster into odd sized and shaped structures. This can cause the 'noisy' or 'grainy' results that are most apparent in smooth areas of contone pictures, flat tints, and vignettes. Also, since at any given percent dot value, purely stochastic screens contain structures of many different sizes, control of printing conditions becomes difficult, and printing using these screens can be unstable.

HDS offers a random approach that dramatically improves the printability, stability, quality, and predictability within the printing process.

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Chain Screening (HCS): The Fusion RIP allows you to custom tailor a high productivity workflow solution that meets your specific needs today, easily and economically. FSIRIP.V.8.pdf