Color printing
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Color printing or colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color.
Bijin (beautiful woman) ukiyo-e by Keisai Eisen, before 1848
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.
Two-color (red/blue) advertising
The first widely reproduced image printed using the three-color process, by William Kurtz (January 1893)
Printing press
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A printing press is a machine that transfers ink onto materials such as paper or cloth by applying pressure to an inked surface. It marked a major advance on earlier methods, in which ink was applied
Color printing
…equipment are used for the mass reproduction of color images on paper. In this sense, "color printing" involves reproduction techniques suited for printing presses capable of thousands or millions of impressions for publishing newspapers and magazines, brochures, cards, posters and similar mass-market items. In…
A medieval university class, 1350s
Early modern wine press. Such screw presses, used in Europe for a wide range of uses, provided Gutenberg with the model for his printing press.
Movable type sorted in a letter case and loaded in a composing stick on top
A paper codex of the 42-line Bible, Gutenberg's major work