Less Dot Gain and Other Benefits by Geoffrey Anciano Technology has touched practically all aspects of our lives. To produce a high quality product, printers must attempt to duplicate the order as close as possible to what the client has in mind. Printers, however, encounter dot gain, a characteristic inherent in all major printing processes.
Film Using film to burn plates is still preferred throughout the printing industry.
However, the potential problems affiliated with this process are numerous. Film with insufficient density can cause dot gain, dark highlight areas, and plugged-up shadow areas. With film gone, however, the role of the printing plate becomes very important. For example, Kodak developed the Direct Thermal Printing Plate. At this point an image is formed precisely as written by the platesetter.