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4- Colour Printing

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Halftone screens

  • Characteristics
    • Gray level
    • Dot frequency (lpi)
    • Screen angle

     

  • Limitations
    • Grid frequency
    • Moire pattern
 
#gray levels = (dpi/lpi) + 1
 

Moire patterns

Screen angles

  • When printing screens over screens, the printer has to be careful to avoid moiré patterns
  • To achieve this, the screen angles for each color must vary by 30 . Black is always at 45 , so the other screens would have to be printed at 15 , 75 and 105
  • However, the fourth colour would have the same angle as the first - which won't work
  • One color screen must be out of 30 variance with the rest, so yellow is printed at 0 . (Yellow is much lighter than the other colors and the moiré it creates is less noticeable.)

 



International Specification for Orienteering Maps produced by the International Orienteering Federation
OCAD produced by Hans Steinegger Software. © 1988-1999 Hans Steinegger. ® OCAD is a registered trademark of Hans Steinegger
This document has been written and coded by Peter Hornsby of Ashby Mapping
Apologies for any mistakes and errors; please inform details of any problems, thanks.
Produced for the Ashby Mapping internet site on 20 November 1997 and 1 December 1999  ©1997-2000 Ashby Mapping
Revised 28 December 1999, 23 March 2000

Extracted from the 1999 report by Knut Olav Sunde ISOM/2000 Project Team