1. A method of generating a halftone data representation of an image for rendering on a multicolor image output device comprising: (a) generating a first contone pixel data representation of the image for a first color separation associated with the image output device; (b) generating a second contone pixel data representation of the image for a second color separation associated with the image output device; (c) generating a halftone data representation of the image for the first color separation as a function of the first contone pixel data representation at a first resolution and the second contone pixel data representation at a second resolution less than the first resolution; (d) generating a halftone data representation of the image for the second color separation; and (e) rendering the image on the multicolor image output device using the halftone data representation of the image for the first color separation and the half-tone data representation of the image for the second color separation.