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Hugh,

I know Creo and Goss machines. Agreed, you can produce FM screens on CTP and use them on newsprint paper. I only would ask, why?

Probably you can generate profiles for such and have the process calibrated, but you still have a much higher dot gain with FM than with AM rasters even for high quality triple coated stock, not to say anything for normal newsprint stock.

So beyond technicalities, the simple question might be, what is the cost/benefit ratio compared to conventional halftone screens printing of newspapers?

I am asking since we are also printing a newspaper (80 pages 4 color tabloid) and we do produce stochastic FM as well as other special screens with our Heidelberg PrintReady system but for high quality mags. For the newspaper we do it with classic (AM) IS screens.

tnx
George