Chromolithography
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Chromolithography is a method for making multi-colour prints. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour. When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrome is frequently used. Lithography is a method of printing on flat surfaces using a flat printing plate instead of raised relief or recessed intaglio techniques.
Uncle Sam Supplying the World with Berry Brothers Hard Oil Finish, c. 1880. This cheaply produced chromolithographic advertisement employs a technique called stippling, with heavy reliance on the initial black line print.
1872 chromolithograph of roadside inn, published in Maryland
Folding Card, The Old Woman Who Lived in A Shoe, 6 April 1883.
Color printing
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Color printing or colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color.
Philibert-Louis Debucourt, The Public Promenade, 1792. Printed in color from various plates, using etching, engraving, and aquatint. One of the leading achievements of the French 18th-century color-print.
The first widely reproduced image printed using the three-color process, by William Kurtz (January 1893)
Image: First lithographic print in the primary triad of colors Red by Boston Public Library