halftone

Speech parts

1. halftone - Noun

2. halftone - Verb

Meaning

an engraving used to reproduce an illustration

a print obtained from photoengraving

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

tertiary engraving etching snapshot vignette photogravure heliogravure semitone autotype diatessaron half step photoengraving demitint metamer halftone engraving

Hypernyms

engraving

Phrases with the word

halftone cells halftone block

Examples

A skilled mimeo operator using an electrostencil and a very coarse halftone screen could make acceptable printed copies of a photograph. Source: Internet

His newspapers introduced innovations such as multi-color presses, halftone photographs on newsprint, comic sections printed in color, and wire syndication of news copy. Source: Internet

Halftoning This diagram shows three examples of color halftoning with CMYK separations, as well as the combined halftone pattern and how the human eye would observe the combined halftone pattern from a sufficient distance. Source: Internet

Magenta printed with a 20% halftone, for example, produces a pink color, because the eye perceives the tiny magenta dots on the large white paper as lighter and less saturated than the color of pure magenta ink. Source: Internet

JBIG-compressed pages result in 20% to 50% faster transmission than MMR-compressed pages, and up to 30-times faster transmission if the page includes halftone images. Source: Internet

Light, saturated colors often cannot be created with CMYK, and light colors in general may make visible the halftone pattern. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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