"When Don Faust called to tell me that he had very successfully reproduced a job on a 1,110.80-line screen I was excited. When I stopped by to see copies, I was speechless. This is a totally awesome achievement."
To put Faust's accomplishment in perspective, screens with 85 to 100 lines per inch are used for printing pictures in newspapers. Screens with 133 to 175 lines per inch are used for pictures in magazines and commercial printing, and 175- to 200-line screens are used for high-quality process color printing.
As a printer of posters, limited edition prints, and annual reports, Faust's standard screen is 300 lines or 360,000 dpi, the point at which the unaided eye can no longer discern individual dots. Six years ago, Faust printed a 900-line screen (3,244,000 dpi).
"That must have been a record," says President Don Faust. "It was publicized, and no one ever disputed it." Our press manufacturer did some research into Faust's latest foray into the realm of high resolution. "We contacted our parent company in Germany," says Quenzer, "and to the best of our collective knowledge, no one has ever successfully printed such a fine line screen. This is an amazing feat!"
Faust had practical reasons for pushing the dot envelope: "The more you push, the more you learn, he says, likening the benefits to that of race cars. "Almost every improvement in modern cars - fuel injection, seat belts, overhead cams and aerodynamics - came from pushing the technology. ---CONTINUED ON PAGE 3