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This 19th century manual on color printing demonstrates how a color image is built up through a series of printing plates, each adding a different color to the final image.

Earhart, John Franklin. The color printer: a treatise on the use of colors in typographic printing, 1892.

TypTS 870.92.347 (A)

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Printmaking history via GIFs, most excellent


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