<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Olivier,<BR><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">I remember Gladstone had difficulties coloring some strips precisely because of<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>the "gray coloring"-- a search has just confirmed the name "Zip-a-Tone", but it turns out to be a brand according to wikipedia; the actual name appears to be screentone. Could someone please confirm?</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Screentone is a proper term (there are others; printing terminology has never been terribly standardized) for the application of dots to simulate shading. It applies to black and white and color reproduction.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Comics artists used Zip-a-Tone for many decades, applying it directly to their original art or to stats of same, in order to introduce inexpensive shading to black and white reproduction. Before Zip-a-Tone came along - and became widely available - artists and prepress houses were known to use Benday (designed for four-color reproduction) for black and white screentone shading, with crude but workable results.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm not sure of this myself, but I've heard that Benday was the material used for screentone shading in the early Gottfredson strips.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV></BODY></HTML>