Historically, the creation of digital line screens was considered to be a
subset of the creation of the digital cluster dot screens. The geometric
constraints necessary for digital cluster dot screens were imported into
the creation of digital line screens. Accordingly, the number of
available angles or digital line screens was also significantly limited.
In various exemplary embodiments of the systems and methods according to
this invention, a digital line screen cell is defined such that the
vectors defining the digital line screen cell are not necessarily
isometric and are not necessarily at right angles to each other. By using
a high-addressability grid that has different resolutions along x and y
axis of the grid, the systems and methods according to this invention
allow the components of the vectors along the high-addressability
direction to be noninteger multiples of the components of the vectors
along the other direction of the grid.