[HN Gopher] Stylized image binning algorithm, for the web
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       Stylized image binning algorithm, for the web
        
       Author : bddicken
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2024-03-09 14:15 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | actionfromafar wrote:
       | But how do one create half-tone images which can print to a laser
       | printer? Whenever I try, the printer itself adds its own toning.
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       | I just want to print an image where a black dot is exactly a
       | black dot, not "fuzzed" by the printer.
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | try a pen plotter?
        
         | ruined wrote:
         | you can't, it's a laser printer.
         | 
         | if it's black-and-white specifically, you may be able to
         | improve slightly by switching to black-and-white mode.
         | 
         | but if you want to design your own halftones, you need to be
         | using a spot color process
        
           | actionfromafar wrote:
           | I mean... _why_ can 't I. The printer is obviously capable of
           | printing such patterns.
        
             | yorwba wrote:
             | The why is that you haven't reverse-engineered the printer
             | internals and modified it to give you fine-grained low-
             | level control over the printing process.
        
               | actionfromafar wrote:
               | If I made a font with dots it would obviously work, no
               | reverse engineering needed.
        
               | masfuerte wrote:
               | Have you looked at the printer's advanced properties
               | dialog? (Assuming these are still a thing?) I haven't
               | owned a printer in years but my last one (some kind of
               | Epson) had options to control the half-toning.
        
               | jdiff wrote:
               | Maybe try feeding it a vector instead of a raster then
        
       | 127 wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone
        
       | macNchz wrote:
       | Reminds me of this tool I used 20 years ago to generate giant
       | halftone posters for my dorm room walls: https://rasterbator.net/
        
       | TuringNYC wrote:
       | Thanks so much for sharing this. When I was 1yo (in the 1970s),
       | my parents took me to Sears (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears)
       | and had a "computer portrait" generated which looks like what
       | you've done. They were so intrigued by this highly pixelated
       | portrait, they had it on the wall almost 20yrs. It seems so
       | commodity now, but these things were true novelties 40ish years
       | ago.
        
         | bddicken wrote:
         | You are welcome.
        
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