Full colour printers in Silverton
August 30, 2011 · Print This Article
Minuteman Press are but one of the many printing stores which have a long and treasured history and they have worked their hardest in order to carry on the good name of the colour printing techniques. Colour printing would not have been possible though without the invention of relief printing, the earliest known form of printing and one that is heavily associated with lithography.
The relief process uses woodcuttings and produces colour or monochromatic prints by a very simple method of cutting the wood and then inking the paper to produce a sort of a stamp. The design is drawn directly into the wood, which is cut into a plank (a process known as wood engraving). The artist then uses a burin to produce a varied assortment of tones that are deeper and richer than the ones that are made possible with standard woodcutting methods.
Europe was home to some of the first colour printing techniques, with one of the first examples being printing in 1457; a book known by the name of Psalter was the result. In the sixteenth century though, chiaroscuro prints begun to be more popular, this was when three or more colours were shaded onto the blocks of wood and printed in layers in order to develop the full range of tones. From roughly the middle of the nineteenth century full colour printing became very popular as the cost went down due to the craftsmen being able to fully understand the art of colour printing.
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