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halftone: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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halftone1 CONSTRUCTHalftone screenHALFTONE · DOTS

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Printing and reprographics

Faking continuous tone with patterned dots

In printing a halftone is the simulation of continuous-tone shading using a pattern of small dots whose size or spacing varies, so that a press that can only lay down solid ink or none reproduces the greys of a photograph, the eye blending the dots at viewing distance. Kipphan's Handbook of print media describes the screening that converts a contone image into such dot patterns and the resolution and angle choices that control quality and avoid moiré. The technique dates to the 1880s, well after the musical interval. The referent is a dot-based tone-reproduction method, unrelated to a pitch interval beyond the shared name.[1]

Unit
The dot pattern, in dots or lines per inch, that simulates continuous tone
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Specified by screen ruling (lines per inch), dot shape, and screen angle; checked by tone reproduction and moiré

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References

  1. Kipphan, H. (Ed.). (2001). Handbook of print media: Technologies and production methods. Springer. ISBN 9783540673262

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