The Color Printer
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The
Color Printer,
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A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing
by
John F. Earhart
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Earhart & Richardson
Cincinnati, Ohio
1892
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1892,
by
John F. Earhart,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress,
at Washington, D. C.
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Preface.
Believing that a work of this character has long been needed, the author offers this book as a practical guide to all printers who desire to obtain the most artistic results in ornamental Color Printing, by the least amount of labor and expense. It has been the aim of the author to produce a work showing, in a measure, what can be accomplished with common colors, by mixture, by printing over one another, by printing over bronzes, and by harmonious combinations.
It is sincerely hoped that this book will answer the purpose for which it is intended, and that printers everywhere will receive it in a kindly spirit similar to that which prompted its production.
| Page. | |
|---|---|
| Definitions of Terms, | 11 |
| Description of Plate 1, | 14 |
| Colors produced by Two-Color Mixtures—Plates 2 to 15, inclusive, | 15 |
| Colors produced by Three-Color Mixtures—Plate 16, | 17 |
| Description of Mixed Colors, | 18 |
| Half-tone Colors—Plates 17 and 18, | 19, 20 |
| Tints—Plates 19, 20 and 21, | 20 |
| Colors produced by printing Colors over one another—Plates 22 to 28, inclusive, | 20 |
| Tints produced by printing Tints over one another—Plates 19 and 20, 21 | 20 |
| Complementary Colors—Plates 31 and 32, | 22 |
| Experiments with Colors, | 23 |
| Harmony of Colors—Plate 32, | 33 |
| Rules for obtaining Harmonious Combinations of Two or More Colors, | 38 |
| Two-Color Combinations—Plates 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 85 and 88, | 38, 45, 46, 47, 57, 58 |
| Combinations of Three or More Colors—Plates 39, 40, 41, 53, 61, 80, 86 and 89, | 44, 47, 48, 51, 53, 56, 57, 58 |
| Combinations of Three Tones of One Color—Plates 39 and 40, | 47 |
| Combination of Three of the Dark Tones of One Color—Plate 40, Fig. 288, | 47 |
| Combination of Two Colors which are Complementary, with a Third Color, produced by a Mixture of the Two—Plate 41, | 48 |
| Combination of Colors closely related—Plates 39, 40, 42, 48, 53, 61, 80, 89, and Figs. 302 and 307 on Plate 45, | 47, 48, 50, 51, 53, 56, 58 |
| Combinations of Colors and Tints with Gold Bronze—Plates 42,43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 56, 57, 63, 65, 66, and 67, | 48, 49, 50, 52, 54, 55 |
| Combinations of Colors and Tints with Copper Bronze—Plates 48 and 58, | 50, 52 |
| Combinations of Colors and Gold Ink on Colored Enameled Papers—Plates 50, 51 and 52, | 50, 51 |
| Combinations with Black—Plates 46, 49, 63, 88 and 90, | 44, 49, 50, 54, 58 |
| Combinations with Gray—Plates 46, 49, 57, 63 and 67, | 45, 49, 50, 52, 54, 55 |
| Description of Plates showing Combinations of Two Colors, | 45 |
| Description of Plates showing combinations of Three or More Colors, | 47 |
| Metallic Colors produced by printing Colors on Gold Bronze —Plate 62, | 53 |
| Card showing Thirty-seven Colors produced by Six Impressions—Plate 63, | 54 |
| Changes which colors undergo when surrounded by other colors—Plates 68 and 87, | 55, 57 |
| Landscape printed in Ten Colors—Plates 69 to 79, inclusive, | 56 |
| Specimen of Mapwork printed in Three Transparent Tints over Black Plate 90, | 58 |
| Specimens of Embossing Borders—Plates 54 and 55, | 51 |
| Specimen pages ornamented with Embossing Borders—Plates 56 and 57, | 52 |
| Specimens of Embossing Patterns produced with punches —Plate 58, | 52 |
| Specimen page showing the use of Embossing Punches—Plate 59, 52 | |
| Specimen of Embossing from Engraved Blocks—Plates 48 and 66, | 50, 55 |
| Tint Blocks—Plates 81, 82, 83, and 84, | 56, 57 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Red, | 60 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Yellow, | 61 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Blue, | 63 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Orange, | 64 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Green, | 65 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Purple, | 65 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Deep Blue, | 66 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Rose-lake, | 67 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Lemon-Yellow, | 68 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Vermilion, | 69 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Gray, | 70 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Black, | 71 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 17, | 72 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 34, | 73 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 36, | 73 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 41, | 74 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 44, | 76 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 45, | 77 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 52, | 77 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 59, | 79 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 60, | 79 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 67, | 80 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 73, | 81 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 75, | 82 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 80, | 83 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 81, | 83 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 83, | 84 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 94, | 85 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. no, | 86 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 115, | 86 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 118, | 87 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 119, | 88 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 123, | 89 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 135, | 90 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 138, | 91 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 139, | 92 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 142, | 93 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 144, | 94 |
| List of Two-Color Combinations including Color No. 148, | 95 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Yellow, | 97 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Blue, | 98 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Green, | 98 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Deep Blue, | 99 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Lemon Yellow, | 99 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Gray, | 100 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Black, | 100 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 34, | 101 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 41, | 101 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 45, | 102 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 52, | 102 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 67, | 103 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 75, | 103 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 83, | 103 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 110, | 104 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 135, | 104 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 139, | 104 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Red and Color No. 148, | 105 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Blue, | 105 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Purple, | 106 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Rose Lake, | 106 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Gray, | 107 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Black, | 108 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 34, | 109 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 36, | 109 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 52, | 110 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 59, | 110 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 67, | 110 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 81, | 110 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 83, | 113 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 135, | 113 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 138, | 114 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Yellow and Color No. 148, | 114 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Blue and Orange, | 115 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Blue and Vermilion, | 116 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Blue and Gray, | 116 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Blue and Black, | 117 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Blue and Color No. 36, | 118 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Blue and Color No. 52, | 119 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Blue and Color No. 73, | 120 |
| List of Three-Color Combinations including Blue and Color No. 81, | 120 |
| List of Excellent Three-Color Combinations taken from the Mixed Colors on Plates 2 to 21, inclusive, | 121, 122, 123 |
| A Few Hints on Job Composition, | 124 |
| A Few Hints on Printing Presses, Rollers, Inks, and Papers, | 130 |
| Description of Head and Tail Pieces and Initial Letters, | 134 |
| A Simple Method of Embossing, | 136 |