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Display: Mechanical Requirements -- 2008 Info
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Digital Material for Black & White at 100 Line Screen Output
• The expected dot gain is 35% at the midtone dot. The preferences file should reflect this amount of gain at the scan or adjusted from within photo editing software such as Photoshop.
• Required format for black & white graphics is Grayscale (@ 200 dpi) or B&W Bitmap (@ 1,016 dpi).
• Fine lines and serifs should not be less than .006 inches in thickness.
• We recommend that all solid reverses be a maximum of 85% black.
• No color formats accepted for black & white.
• No multiple master (MM) fonts of any kind.
Digital materials: Acrobat PDF (most preferred), Postscript or EPS. Embed all fonts.
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| Recommended Aim Points |
Halftones |
| Specular/non-detail whites |
0% |
| Minimum highlight dot |
3% |
| Quartertone dot |
16% |
| Midtone dot |
32% |
| Shadow dot |
80% |
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