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		bzbarsky on March 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSS px is an Angular Measurement Interesting. Do printers use halftone screens for pure black-and-white content as well?

jonah on March 13, 2012 [–]

If it's pure crisp black like text, then no.

Sometimes pure black is printed incorrectly and looks "fuzzy" with dots around the edges - in that case it is rendered with a halftone screen.

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