The cost of printing tritones or quadratones may be as high as or higher than four-color process printing. Foil Stamping to cover paper with a thin, flexible sheet of metal or other material. The foil, which may be clear or opaque, comes in a range of colors, and is carried on a plastic sheet. Stamping separates the foil from the plastic and makes it adhere to the paper. Foil Stamping can be combined with embossing or debossing as an added design element.
Fonts are all the characters and punctuation marks of one size and style of type.
Format is the general appearance of a printed piece, including the page size and number of columns per page. Reproducing a four-color image begins with separating the image into four different halftones. When we look at the final result, our eyes blend the dots to recreate the continuous tones and variety of colors we see in a color photograph, painting, or drawing. Hairline is the thinnest rule used in printing, or the thinnest stroke in a letter form. Halftone a printing plate made by photographing a image through a screen so that the image is reproduced in dots.