ranging from 51 to 250 have noise added pursuant to the above described process using the pixel noise clusters shown in fig1 18 19 and 20 the relationship between the quality value and noise can be expressed by the equation the addition of the pixel clusters 53 55 57 and 59 illustrated in fig1 18 19 and 20 respectively to the background pixel patterns having quality values 1 through 50 is illustrated in fig2 22 23 and 24 fig2 illustrates a background pixel pattern with a value of 51 this pattern is the combination of the background pixel pattern having a quality index of 1 illustrated in fig1 and the noise pixel cluster 53 of fig1 fig2 illustrates a background pixel pattern with a quality value of 114 this pattern is a combination of the background pixel pattern 41 of fig1 having a quality value of 14 with the pixel cluster 55 of fig1 fig2 illustrates a background pixel pattern with a quality value 196 this pattern is a combination of the pixel background pattern 15 of fig1 having a quality value of 46 and the pixel cluster pattern 57 of fig1 fig2 illustrates a background pixel pattern with a quality value 250 this pattern is a combination of pixel 23 pattern background of fig5 having a quality index of 50 with the pixel cluster pattern 59 of fig2 at the maximum quality index setting of 250 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention the noise and density are both maximized the methods described above are implemented and practiced by various printer platforms available in the marketplace like hewlett packard canon lexmark etc as shown in fig2 each of these printer platforms 71 has a processor 73 communicating with a main memory 75 to.