Dithering wouldn't help with ghosting

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(In fact, a dithering pattern will probably make it worse. Not that that'd be of interest here anyway, since you're doing mostly solid blocks of colors anyway

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Sidebar: passthrough happens to be "no dithering" (i.e., the default) ^^.
Sidebarē: I have no idea how well the HW dithering is even supposed to work on Kindle. Initial reports when it was enabled in KOReader seemed to hint that it was broke as hell.
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Curious how/with what you tried flashing updates, though. Because it should (generally) be mildly helpful.
But, nothing beats flashing white then flashing new content to defeat eInk ghosting

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