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The color printer. A treatise on the use of colors in typographic printing

Earhart, John F · 1892 · Cincinnati, Earhart & Richardson · 70 pictures

John F. Earhart's 1892 treatise from Cincinnati printers Earhart & Richardson, made to teach jobbing compositors and pressmen how overprinted ink films combine on press. The plates are banded specimen strips: ruled screens and solids in green, magenta, blue, vermilion and black, interrupted by small reserved diamonds, dots, discs and starburst florets.

Color · Printing

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