Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic
Web-fed offset lithographic press at speed
CMYK four color offset printing on fabric
CMYK colors of offset printing on a paper
Negative lithographic printing plate
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)