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<p>[QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 285409, member: 602"]According to Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>Chromolithography</b></font></p><p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p>This article is about the print-making method. For the Felipe Alfau novel, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_Alfau" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_Alfau" rel="nofollow">Felipe Alfau</a>.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OldWomanWho-Open.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OldWomanWho-Open.JPG" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/OldWomanWho-Open.JPG/200px-OldWomanWho-Open.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Chromolithography</b> is a unique method for making multi-colour <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printmaking" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printmaking" rel="nofollow">prints</a>. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography" rel="nofollow">lithography</a>, and includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom" rel="nofollow">photochrome</a> is frequently used. Lithographers sought to find a way to print on flat surfaces with the use of chemicals instead of raised <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_print" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_print" rel="nofollow">relief</a> or recessed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intaglio_(printmaking)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intaglio_(printmaking)" rel="nofollow">intaglio</a> techniques.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography#cite_note-temple2007-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography#cite_note-temple2007-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Chromolithography became the most successful of several methods of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_printing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_printing" rel="nofollow">colour printing</a> developed by the 19th century; other methods were developed by printers such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Christoph_Le_Blon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Christoph_Le_Blon" rel="nofollow">Jacob Christoph Le Blon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Baxter_(printer)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Baxter_(printer)" rel="nofollow">George Baxter</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Evans" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Evans" rel="nofollow">Edmund Evans</a>, and mostly relied on using several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcut" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcut" rel="nofollow">woodblocks</a> with the colours. Hand-colouring also remained important; elements of the official British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey" rel="nofollow">Ordnance Survey</a> maps were coloured by hand by boys until 1875. The initial technique involved the use of multiple lithographic stones, one for each colour, and was still extremely expensive when done for the best quality results. Depending on the number of colours present, a chromolithograph could take even very skilled workers months to produce. However much cheaper prints could be produced by simplifying both the number of colours used, and the refinement of the detail in the image. Cheaper images, like advertisements, relied heavily on an initial black print (not always a lithograph), on which colours were then overprinted. To make an expensive reproduction print as what was once referred to as a “’chromo’”, a lithographer, with a finished painting in front of him, gradually created and corrected the many stones using proofs to look as much as possible like the painting in front of him, sometimes using dozens of layers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 285409, member: 602"]According to Wikipedia: [SIZE=6][B]Chromolithography[/B][/SIZE] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the print-making method. For the Felipe Alfau novel, see [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_Alfau']Felipe Alfau[/URL]. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OldWomanWho-Open.JPG'][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/OldWomanWho-Open.JPG/200px-OldWomanWho-Open.JPG[/IMG][/URL] [B]Chromolithography[/B] is a unique method for making multi-colour [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printmaking']prints[/URL]. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography']lithography[/URL], and includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom']photochrome[/URL] is frequently used. Lithographers sought to find a way to print on flat surfaces with the use of chemicals instead of raised [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_print']relief[/URL] or recessed [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intaglio_(printmaking)']intaglio[/URL] techniques.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography#cite_note-temple2007-2'][2][/URL] Chromolithography became the most successful of several methods of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_printing']colour printing[/URL] developed by the 19th century; other methods were developed by printers such as [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Christoph_Le_Blon']Jacob Christoph Le Blon[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Baxter_(printer)']George Baxter[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Evans']Edmund Evans[/URL], and mostly relied on using several [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcut']woodblocks[/URL] with the colours. Hand-colouring also remained important; elements of the official British [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey']Ordnance Survey[/URL] maps were coloured by hand by boys until 1875. The initial technique involved the use of multiple lithographic stones, one for each colour, and was still extremely expensive when done for the best quality results. Depending on the number of colours present, a chromolithograph could take even very skilled workers months to produce. However much cheaper prints could be produced by simplifying both the number of colours used, and the refinement of the detail in the image. Cheaper images, like advertisements, relied heavily on an initial black print (not always a lithograph), on which colours were then overprinted. To make an expensive reproduction print as what was once referred to as a “’chromo’”, a lithographer, with a finished painting in front of him, gradually created and corrected the many stones using proofs to look as much as possible like the painting in front of him, sometimes using dozens of layers.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromolithography#cite_note-3'][3][/URL][/QUOTE]
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