Dot gain
the inherent 'growth' of a halftone dot when printed on paper, vellum, or film. A small dot can grow as much as 50 percent or more when printed. Dot gain can also occur when the ink is printed on the shirt.
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dot gain
dpi
Dots per inch, a measure of the spatial resolution of a digital image or a capture device. See also ppi and spi.
dot gain
the optical increase in the size of a halftone dot during prepress operations or the mechanical increase in halftone dot size that occurs during printing.
dot gain, mechanical
the physical growth of the area of each halftone dot.
Dot Gain: An increase in the size of halftone dots that may occur as a result of errors or imperfections in any of the steps between screening an image and printing it onto paper.
Dot gain
A printing defect in which dots prints larger than intended, causing darker colours or tones.
There wasn't much Apple could do to alter the way images printed on the early Laser Writer printer since the dot gain was determined mainly by the interaction of ink and paper, not software.
Guard against excessive dot gain. Watch for loss of shadow detail. Watch for spattering in highlights and midtones. Raise the amount of ink laid out to a maximum without encountering these adverse side effects.
2 (luminance response) but presses have dot gain. Using a source space that is a little lighter reduces the quantization when you correct for press gain. (few people know that Xerox PARC and Apple used 1.
 See also: Dot, Print, Light, Image, Printing
  
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