A Similigravure is a “Phototypographique” – an early single line Halftone. He may have discussed his method as early as 1870. Petit first created a high chromated gelatin relief from which he created a plaster copy. “He inked the surface of the plaster cast and then cut across it in a ruling machine with a V-shaped tool. As this cut deepest into the raised portion of the relief representing the lights of the picture it also left the depression more or less untouched, there was produced an effect of halftone which was then photographically reproduced in the form of a printing plate.” The term “similigravure” became the French equivalent to “halftone” even after the use of line screens became common. [1]