The color printer. A treatise on the use of colors in typographic printing (1892)
Earhart, John Franklin · Cincinnati, Earhart & Richardson · leaf 23
As this book is intended specially for printers who use com- paratively small quantities of ink, we decided to obtain the different proportions by measure instead of by weight. In accordance with this idea, we obtained a lot of brass circles of different sizes, and by careful tests and filing them… … Then with the addition of a fine marble slab, a half dozen small ink knives, and about two hundred quarter- pound cans, we were ready to commence mixing the colors. Fig. 13 on Plate 2 was I the first color made. The reader will please notice that the propor- tions are as 1 to 3 in this color. We…
Color printing
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