Phototype

Phototype

*Phototype can refer to a metal printing block, sometimes prepared using photogravure to reproduce a photograph in printing. The block may be a halftone image.

*Phototype can also refer to type set using a phototypesetting process to prepare pages for photo lithography. This process replaced hot metal typesetting. It was common throughout the 1970's and 1980's and was in turn rapidly rendered obsolete by modern systems which employ a raster image processor to render an entire page to a single high-resolution digital image which is then photoset.

*Skin phototype depends on the amount of melanin pigment in the skin. It is assessed on a scale from 1 to 6.


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