ABSTRACT

The late 1980s, revolutionary advances in digital halftoning enabled inkjet printers to achieve much higher image fidelity. The rapid rate of progress has resulted in numerous breakthroughs scattered throughout the literature, rendering old technologies obsolete and renewing the need for a centralized source on the current state of the art. Entirely revised and updated, Modern Digital Halftoning, Second Edition provides an integrated and up-to-date treatment of stochastic halftoning and digital printing.

Using full-color illustrations to enhance the text, this edition incorporates new topics as well as updated models, algorithms, and methods used to construct and improve the quality of green-noise, blue-noise, and multitone images. Following a review of various halftoning techniques, this edition now covers amplitude modulated dither arrays, adapting to human visual models, direct binary search, and handling stochastic moiré problems. It also presents a new chapter on lenticular printing, a means for printing color holographic images. Accompanying downloadable resources contain MATLAB® software files and illustrated examples employing algorithms, statistics, and other key concepts from the book.

Documenting the development of digital printing since the first edition, Modern Digital Halftoning, Second Edition offers a well-rounded and accurate perspective on the technological capabilities of digital printing and provides all the necessary tools for continuing research in the field.

chapter Chapter 1|19 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 2|18 pages

AM Halftoning

chapter Chapter 3|24 pages

Stochastic Halftone Analysis

chapter Chapter 4|13 pages

Halftone Visibility

chapter Chapter 5|51 pages

Blue-Noise Dithering

chapter Chapter 6|51 pages

Blue-Noise Dither Arrays

chapter Chapter 7|28 pages

Direct Binary Search

chapter Chapter 8|30 pages

Hexagonal Grid Halftoning

chapter Chapter 9|43 pages

Printers: Distortions and Models

chapter Chapter 10|87 pages

Green-Noise Dithering

chapter Chapter 11|52 pages

Green-Noise Masks

chapter Chapter 12|48 pages

Color Printing

chapter Chapter 13|44 pages

Stochastic Moiré

chapter Chapter 14|44 pages

Multi-Tone Dithering

chapter Chapter 15|26 pages

Lenticular Halftoning

chapter Chapter 16|4 pages

Conclusions