Who doesn’t love a surprise at this time of year? Well, researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in France certainly do, so they’ve created a new kind of inkjet printing technique ...

Halftone printing, a process in which images are printed using small dots at different distances apart, made the mass publication of photographs possible. This printing technique was used from the ...

Students at the University of Derby have stated an ongoing project entitled The Human Printer. The students take photographs and reproduce the CMYK halftone printing effect by hand. The process has to ...

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Thinking of making a comic book out of your artwork (or even photos), and want to give each piece a genuine comic book look-and-feel? Or maybe you’d like make a calendar with a gritty or grunge vibe?

HANCOCK, N.H. ” Xerox Corp. has developed a technique called Glossmark printing that imitates the dual-image capabilities of holograms and can be implemented on laser printers. The resulting printed ...

A Moiré pattern is a form of distortion that sometimes occurs in digital images scanned from sources that were printed using the halftone method, such as newspapers and magazines. The tiny, colored ...