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Visualisation of the screens according to the printing process

We present here a very precise comparison of how our printers or imagers will reproduce your image on a print. For example, in the case of a pigment printer, how the distribution and density of the different ink dots on a given paper surface will be managed. This "print screen" is linked to the technology used by the printing process (printer, imager).

Important: Don't worry, when viewing an entire print, such as our 12x12 cm print here, the print screen does not appear to the naked eye! However, the structure of the screen contributes to the sharpness of the print. Depending on the printing process, the preview of your print may therefore appear subjectively according to your preference: sharp, not sharp enough or too sharp.

In detail, using a high definition scanner, we scanned the same 12 x 12 cm print on our different colour and black and white printing processes: silver-digital imagers (Durst Lambda, Fuji Frontier), inkjet printers (Epson, HP), very large format printers (SwissQ Nyala, SwissQ Kudu, Epson R5000L).

We have extracted the same detail, the eye on the left of the face, to highlight the rendering of the screen for each printing process: this detail corresponds to 3 cm long and 1.5 cm long on the 12x12cm print.

Enlargements made from scans of prints from our different printing processes.