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Ives, Frederic Eugene

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Ives, Frederic Eugene (1856–1937)

US inventor who developed the first practical halftone process of printing photographs in 1878. The process uses a screen to break up light and dark areas into dots. By 1886 he had evolved the halftone process now generally in use. Among his many other inventions was a three-colour printing process (similar to the four-colour process).



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