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<h1>Design vocabulary</h1>
<p>Screen-printing is a precise and intentional craft, requiring a vocabulary that reflects its technical depth and conceptual rigor. Understanding these terms is essential for buyers navigating the nuances of screen-printed surfaces, from the interplay of light and pigment to the materiality of the process itself.</p>
<h2>Registration</h2>
<p>The alignment of multiple layers in a multi-color print, ensuring that each color is precisely positioned relative to the others. A misregistration in a product might appear as a slight offset between colors, visible as a gap or overlap along the edges of shapes.</p>
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<li>Registration is critical in multi-color prints, where even a millimeter of misalignment can distort the intended design.</li>
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<h2>Halftone</h2>
<p>A technique that uses dots of varying sizes and spacing to simulate continuous tones, creating gradients or shading. In a product, halftone might be used to render a photograph or textured surface, with the dots forming a subtle pattern when viewed from a distance.</p>
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<li>A halftone effect in a product can be seen in gradients, where the density of dots controls the perceived lightness or darkness.</li>
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<h2>Screen Emulsion</h2>
<p>The light-sensitive coating applied to screens that hardens when exposed to UV light, defining the stencil. The emulsion’s thickness affects ink flow and detail resolution, visible in the sharpness of lines or the smoothness of fills.</p>
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<li>Screen emulsion determines how fine or bold a product’s details appear, with
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