Chromotypograph
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Chromotypograph refers to any number of obsolete graphic arts or printing processes which used cold and warm rinse etching baths to create surfaces by which color images could be relief print
ed from zinc plates in the letterpress manner.
Such processes, as pioneered by Firmin Gillot
represent a prototyping and experimental stage between the manual and process printing eras and are characterized by their utilization of various hand-originated textures AND photographically transferred tones or outlines, which when combined with other color plates produced in a like manner could produce continuous tone color images unlike those found in similar technologies such as chromolithography
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Chromotypograph is the preferred description for a number of process which include but are not limited to photo color relief, gillotage, chromotype, color relief etching
, zincography
, chromoxylography, color line block, glyptotype, Dallastint, Dallastype.
Relief print
A relief print is an image created by a printmaking process where protruding surface faces of the matrix are inked; recessed areas are ink free. Printing the image is therefore a relatively simple matter of inking the face of the matrix and bringing it in firm contact with the paper...
ed from zinc plates in the letterpress manner.
Such processes, as pioneered by Firmin Gillot
Firmin Gillot
Firmin Gillot, father of Charles Gillot , invented in 1852 the paniconography for which he took a patent . Later, he invented a new process, again in relief, but nonphotographic.Around 1870, his son Charles Gillot developed the Gillotage process...
represent a prototyping and experimental stage between the manual and process printing eras and are characterized by their utilization of various hand-originated textures AND photographically transferred tones or outlines, which when combined with other color plates produced in a like manner could produce continuous tone color images unlike those found in similar technologies such as chromolithography
Chromolithography
Chromolithography is a method for making multi-color prints. This type of color printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and it includes all types of lithography that are printed in color. When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrom is frequently used...
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Chromotypograph is the preferred description for a number of process which include but are not limited to photo color relief, gillotage, chromotype, color relief etching
Etching
Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...
, zincography
Zincography
Zincography was a planographic printing process that used zinc plates. Alois Senefelder first mentioned zinc's lithographic use as a substitute for Bavarian limestone in his 1801 English patent specifications . In 1834, the Frenchman Breugnot patented a zincographic printing process, producing...
, chromoxylography, color line block, glyptotype, Dallastint, Dallastype.
External links
- LeRire.com - Features examples of Chromotypographic illustration.
- L'assiette au beurre - Belle epoque Chrmotypograph Journal.