Newsday's line screen (screen ruling): 100

Continuous Tone Image: 200 dpi

Bitmapped or Line Art image: 1270 dpi

Suppoprted Color: CMYK (PMS and Spot coverted to CMYK)

Grayscale (continuous tone) tonal values:
Highlights (quarter tones): 4 - 5%
Midtones (halftones): 35 - 45%
Shadows: 90 - 95%

Color (continuous tone) tonal values:
Highlights (quarter tones): Cyan 3%, Magenta 2%, Yellow 2%
Midtone Gray Balance: Cyan 50%, Magenta 40%, Yellow 40%

Maximum 4/C Density, Total Area Coverage (TAC):
Printing too much ink on a page will cause oversaturation: a large quantity of ink will build up, which will dry slowly and the oversaturated part of the paper is more likely to stretch, warp, wrinkle, tear and transfer inks (set-off). Newsday's max density for color is 240.

Dot Gain Compensation
Dot Gain can be described as the growth in size of a halftone dot through the successive stages of the printing process. The value measured in this assessment is "total dot gain" which includes both mechanical and optical dot gain. It is a measure of the total dot growth when producing negatives, plates and the printed sheet. Dot gain values are typically reported from the midtone portion of the printed material (50%). This measurement is a direct increase in the percent dot area. Therefore, a 50% film dot that produces an 85% printed dot, has a 35% total dot gain.