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Any image—such as a photograph—that exists as a series of small dots of varying size and color density that serve to simulate the appearance of continuous gradations of tone. Halftones
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Halftone Dot
The basic indivisible unit of some printed images—commonly photographs—produced by photographically exposing or digitally imaging a continuous tone image to a screen, which breaks the image up into discrete dots. Since most
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Halftone Ink
A printing ink possessing high color strength and finely-dispersed pigment particles, formulated especially for high-quality reproduction of halftone dots on coated papers.
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Halftone Negative
A photographic negative film produced by exposing a continuous tone image through a halftone screen. Also called ascreened negative. See Halftone.
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Halftone Plate
A somewhat incorrect term occasionally used in screen printing to refer to a screen fabric suitable for printinghalftone images.
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Halftone Positive
A photographic positive film produced by exposing a continuous tone image through a halftone screen. Also called ascreened positive. See Halftone.
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Halftone Scale
A type of gray scale that exists on film and comprises halftone dots in discrete levels of gray. See Gray Scale.
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Halftone Screen
See Screen (second definition) and Halftone.
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Halftone Screen Algorithm
Alternate term for screen algorithm. See Screen Algorithm.
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Halftone Tint
Alternate term for screen tint. See Screen Tint.
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