HD Color Printing combines our multilevel LED printheads with new microfine toner and high-resolution printer configurations to render deeper, more saturated colors, finer detail, and more precise toner placement than ever.

Background: key technology components – Image pixels and printer dots are very different. A pixel in a digital photo can be one of 16 million colors, while a dot from a color printer is one of four possible colors: cyan, magenta, yellow or black (CMYK). To simulate image pixels, color printers employ halftoning – arranging CMYK dots in clusters called halftone cells. The size of the halftone cell influences the key elements required to produce high-quality digital images, which are:

• Image resolution – refers to the density of pixels in an image. The more pixels per given area, the greater the detail. With digital printers, this translates into the density of halftone cells, measured in lines per inch (lpi). In other words, how many halftone cells you can cram into a square inch. The higher the “lpi,” the more densely packed the halftone cells—and the more detail we are able to see.