halftone process

  • 1halftone process — In printing, a technique of breaking up an image into a series of dots to permit reproduction of the full tone range of a photograph or artwork. It is traditionally done by placing a glass screen printed with a tight grid of lines over the plate… …

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  • 2Halftone process — Растрирование, фоторепродуцирование с растрированием; Растрирование; Фоторепродуцирование с растрированием …

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  • 3Halftone — For the music interval, see semitone. Left: Halftone dots. Right: How the human eye would see this sort of arrangement from a sufficient distance. Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of… …

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  • 4halftone — /haf tohn , hahf /, n. 1. Also called middle tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark. 2. Print. a. a process in which gradation of tone in an image is conveyed by first photographing… …

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  • 5process — processual /pro sesh ooh euhl/ or, esp. Brit, /proh /, adj. /pros es/; esp. Brit. /proh ses/, n., pl. processes /pros es iz, euh siz, euh seez / or, esp. Brit., /proh ses , proh seuh /, v., adj. n. 1. a systematic series of actions directed to… …

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  • 6halftone — /ˈhaftoʊn/ (say hahftohn) noun 1. Painting, Photography, etc. a value intermediate between high light and deep shade. 2. Photoengraving a. a process in which gradation of tone is obtained by a system of minute dots produced by a screen placed in… …

  • 7process printing — [prä′ses΄] n. a method of reproducing color prints in almost any hue by the use of halftone plates in red, yellow, blue, and usually black …

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  • 8Direct halftone process — Процесс получения цветоделённых негативов непосредственно с оригиналов через светофильтры и растр …

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  • 9process color — noun Short for four color printing process. A printing process which uses four specific colored inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), and halftone printing plates, to reproduce a range of colors. Syn: CMYK, four co, [[full process, [[full …

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  • 10halftone — half•tone [[t]ˈhæfˌtoʊn, ˈhɑf [/t]] n. 1) pht fia (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark 2) pri fia a) pri a printing process in which gradation of tone is obtained by a system of minute… …

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