:Sublima

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:Sublima is Agfa Graphics' most advanced screening option. Its cross-modulated (XM) screening technology is designed to dramatically improve print quality with no extra effort on press. :Sublima lets your press easily hold a 1 – 99% dot at higher frequencies, so it captures the finest details and the most vibrant colors.

Prints as high as 340 lpi (for commercial sheet-fed)

A range of :Sublima screens, designed for different applications offer you higher screen rulings, however they print like your work today.

User Profile

:Sublima screening can be used in commercial, packaging and newspaper production. It is available with most Agfa Graphics' CtP systems.

How :Sublima XM Technology Works

:Sublima uses a patented technology known as XM (Cross Modulation) to achieve line-screen rulings of up to the double (typically) from what you are used today.

It combines the benefits of AM (Amplitude Modulated) screening, which are smooth gradations and highly controllable midtones, with the benefits of FM (Frequency Modulated) screening: fine detail rendering in shadows and highlights and continuous-tone-like reproduction. It aligns FM dots along AM paths and replaces AM dots at the precise point where the AM dot can no longer be held on a specific press.

The result is a smooth transition from one mode to the other with no visible crossover. :Sublima also takes press characteristics into account so that it will never produce a dot the press cannot hold. As a result, every detail gets printed. Process tints, fine lines, even delicate typefaces print like solids using four-color process. Flesh tones are perfectly smooth and color accurate.

Because :Sublima can hold the tiniest microdot on press, enlarging or reducing images have no effect on quality or the ability to sustain details. This also widens the variety of papers that you can use at high line rulings: from high-gloss coated stocks to translucent vellums and newsprint.