Abstract: An apparatus and method for image manipulation treatment applicable, for example, to a printing process at high resolution is discussed. The invention reduces time consumed, when high resampling image are needed, while preserving image characteristics and rendering quality. The invention enables image printing at high resolution, including images having non-continuous tone and multilevel print dithering. This is made possible because lesser amounts of significant image data are sent for computation for an equivalent to better quality of the resultant image.