Chromolithography: alternatives and connections

A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.

A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the pr…

A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordina…

The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objec…

One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.

The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in…

Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instea…

To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.

A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, po…

Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.

A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper…

One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type.

Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.

An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish…