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What are halftones?Updated a year ago

Halftones are a mathematical dot pattern that represents the grayscale value of a color and are created based on a grid. Printers can rotate the grid to change the angle, lines per inch, and more. This dot pattern can be so tiny that it appears as a regular image, but can be screen printed easily.

The halftone process translates the different grayscale tones of a photograph into dots of various sizes. Halftones interpret grayscale values based on a predefined grid or pattern using Lines Per Inch (LPI) and Angle, making them useful for screen printing.

To learn more about halftones, check out this article.

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