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Valued for its near-photographic quality, stochastic screening is becoming more widely used throughout the industry.

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By: KERRY PIANOFORTE

Editor, Coatings World

  Although stochastic screening has been around for more than a decade, the largest growth appears to have occurred quite recently. Stochastic uses a special screening technology to create images that look more like photographs than printing. Normally in printing, the printer takes a finite number of dots and varies their size in order to create the illusion of images. In stochastic screening, all the dots are the same size, but they are much smaller and the number o...

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