Tonal range

In the printing area, the range from the brightest image areas, so-called highlights, to the darkest image areas, so-called depths, is called the tonal range.

The tonal range limits are defined by the area coverage of the screen dots in percent, e.g. 3 percent in the highlights, 95 percent in the depths. The minimum and maximum values of the area coverage in printing depend on the printing process used.