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Setting the Right Tone

Setting the Right Tone

The history of halftone printing in design, illustration, and art. This article covers the earliest uses of halftones in wood engraving and metal engraving and finally to etched metal photo plates used in commercial printing in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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