STAGE 4 OF 6
Tone
Grey without ink — mechanical, hand-cut, halftone. This stage decides the page’s greys and marries them to the print screen they must survive.
Lead piece
Grey without ink
Screentone is a printed dot pattern on adhesive film, cut and burnished down. What it solves and what it costs in reproduction.
Read the piece →All in Tone4 pieces, filed in working order
- P.15Grey without inkScreentone is a printed dot pattern on adhesive film, cut and burnished down. What it solves and what it costs in reproduction.
- P.16MoiréTwo dot patterns interfering. The reason tone has to match the print screen.
- P.17Cutting and burnishingScalpel work on film, and the edge that gives it away.
- P.18HalftoneContinuous grey turned into dots of varying size so a press can print it.