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Fake duotone

Also know as false duotone, duograph, duplex halftone, screen halftone and flat tint halftone. A dummy duotone simply has the image from one plate duplicated and overprinted over the other color plate.

See also: Duotone

Flatbed scanner

A desktop or design studio-based scanner that works by placing original artwork face down on a glass sheet and an electronic sensor scans the selected image area and outputs the digital file to a desktop computer.

The quality of desktop flatbed color scanners has improved dramatically in recent years. Some of the higher end flat-bed scanners are even capable of prepress quality color scans.

See also: Drum Scanner, desktop scanners reviewed

Fully Formatted Disk

A disk containing all of the print-ready files required for a job to be outputted at pre-press. This could typically include the DTP document itself (e.g. a QuarkXpress or InDesign file) all the EPS logos and high resolution Photoshop bitmap files and scans.