Bitmap

Graphic or halftone image (photo), which is composed of individual pixels. Scanners or digital cameras save images as bitmaps within certain data formats, as TIFF or PNG.

Application

Printers and imagesetters always require a bitmap file to control the output, e.g. by toner application or laser beam recording.

A bitmap is composed of individual pixels, also called pixel image

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