2bit AM screening 150 LPI

A printing method used to print most monochrome mangas. It consists of 150 lines of black/white dots per inch, and requires 600 DPI source data.

8bit AM screening 175 LPI

A printing method used by most artbooks and posters. It consists of 175 lines per inch using 4 channels (CYMK) at 256 tones each and different angles. It requires 350dpi source data

8bit AM screening 200~300 LPI

Similar to the previous method, but used by high quality photo artbooks and some doujinshi.

FM screening

A printing method used by some doujinshi. It matches 300lpi AM quality, but due to the semi-random dotting that is part of the process, colors are a bit inconsistent.

Hybrid screening (XM)

A printing method used by some doujinshi. It is a new printing process combining AM and FM methods. It matches 300~500LPI AM quality, and there is no color inconsistency.

AM screening 65~133 LPI

A printing method used for [news]papers, cheap magazines and fabric goods.

Extra reading

• AM/FM/XM
• LPI vs. DPI.
• Quality in Print - Everything you ever wanted to know about the printing process.

Updated by midzki about 14 years ago