Tempting the Palette: A Survey of Color Printing Processes.
Rochester, NY: Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2005,
Second Edition. large octavo, pictorial wrappers. 58pp. Cary Graphic Arts Press, New. Item #13758
Twenty-five historic color processes are described and illustrated here through informative texts and sumptuous digital color reproductions. Numerous magnified detail illustrations show the tonal characteristics of each process: colored woodcuts, engraving, mezzotints, stipple engraving, aquatint, tinted lithography, tonal reproduction, chromolithography, nature printing, photolithography, halftone, color collotype, photogravure, pochoir or stencil printing, offset lithography, and screen printing. The majority of the image samples are drawn from the Cary Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology. An illuminating text. "The second edition...represents another milestone. Though the content remains substantially unchanged, this publication takes advantage of a number of new developments in the technology of digital publishing." New.
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