Image Evaluation Test Target (MT-3)

This is not a comic strip but a standardized photographic resolution chart used by the Photographic Sciences Corporation to calibrate image quality and clarity. The target displays resolution bars and numbered reference markers (1.0 through 2.0) arranged across a 6-inch width, enabling technicians to evaluate reproduction fidelity in printing and photocopying. Such targets became essential tools as mechanical reproduction technologies advanced, ensuring consistent quality control across the expanding print and publishing industries that had grown from nineteenth-century newspaper comics.