Sawtooth effect

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The sawtooth effect is a term from printing technology that refers to the quality of the printed product.

In many printing processes such as screen printing or gravure printing , the individual dots of the print image are applied to the printing material in a grid pattern , which means that the individual dots exist separately from one another and do not form closed contours. This creates the sawtooth effect , which corresponds to the staircase effect of digitally displayed images, which are ultimately composed of individual pixels that exist independently of one another. This effect becomes clear from a certain degree of magnification, but as a rule we do not perceive the grid and see closed forms.