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Term: Duotone

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Term: Duotone

Definition:
Duotones results from halftone-printing a pictorial image (most often from a grayscale continuous tone image) in two different ink colors, thus producing a richer, longer tone scale than is possible using only one ink color.
Category:
Image
Resource:
CanPrint Communications definition of duotone
http://www.canprint.com.au/printing/faq/show.php?id=21
Duotone (Wikipedia article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duotone
See also:
Printed halftone