My first thought about this is give me a printer that is too cheap to replicate a dollar!
Also cram every technique in that will reduce print times, ink usage, and maybe other issues like ink smear (low-overlap halftone?). Something that will probably be perfectly fine for a bar chart or image macro (especially if it does so in relation to human perception), but nowhere close to looking like real currency. Typewriter strikes of ASCII chars like ░▒▓🮘🮐🮕🮁 for all I care if it the image is readable at typical viewing distance.
EDIT: I like 12-bit RGB (AKA 3-digit hex color codes, 4096 colors) but this doesn’t exactly translate to CMYK because hex codes are in RGB. I guess a custom filter could still round it to 15-levels per channel (K perhaps could have more levels). Maybe something similar to color profiles for dithering/rounding? Or maybe CMYK having a lower gamut already means this isn’t a great idea.
My first thought about this is give me a printer that is too cheap to replicate a dollar!
Also cram every technique in that will reduce print times, ink usage, and maybe other issues like ink smear (low-overlap halftone?). Something that will probably be perfectly fine for a bar chart or image macro (especially if it does so in relation to human perception), but nowhere close to looking like real currency. Typewriter strikes of ASCII chars like
░▒▓🮘🮐🮕🮁for all I care if it the image is readable at typical viewing distance.EDIT: I like 12-bit RGB (AKA 3-digit hex color codes, 4096 colors) but this doesn’t exactly translate to CMYK because hex codes are in RGB. I guess a custom filter could still round it to 15-levels per channel (K perhaps could have more levels). Maybe something similar to color profiles for dithering/rounding? Or maybe CMYK having a lower gamut already means this isn’t a great idea.