Engraving and printing methods, advertisement illustration, technical- and trade-paper advertising, street-car advertising, outdoor advertising, house publications (1909)
Scranton : International Textbook Co. · leaf 16
plain black square. If, how-ever, certain parts of the face of the block are cut downdeep, so that they cannot be inked when an inked roller ispassed over the block, and other parts are cut down so thatonly dots and lines of the metal or wood are left high enoughto be inked, the result, when the… … Fig. 1 Fig. 2 will show against a white background. This, therefore, isthe general principle of cut making—to put a design on aplate and to cut away by hand, with machinery, or with acid,such portions of the plate as are not desired in the finishedillustration. Fig. 1 shows a cut of a shoe, and it…