1. A method to produce a hardcopy output of an image on an imaging medium, comprising: providing grayscale image data representing said image; determining a perforation density for representing said image; halftoning said grayscale image data based on said perforation density to form perforation halftone data; and producing said hardcopy output of said image by perforating said imaging medium in accordance with said perforation halftone data, wherein a maximum perforation density for said perforation density is selected based on a particular media type of said imaging medium being used.