Tempting the Palette: A Survey of Color Printing Processes

Second Edition

By David Pankow

Twenty-five historic color processes are described and illustrated here through informative texts and sumptuous digital color reproductions. Numerous magnified detail illustrations show the tonal characteristics of each process. The majority of the image samples are drawn from the Cary Collection.

Processes include:
Illumination
Colored Woodcuts
Engraving
Mezzotint
Stipple Engraving
Aquatint
Tinted Lithography
Lithography, Hand-colored
Wood Engraving
Multiple Processes
Tone Reproduction
Chromolithography
Nature Printing
Photolithography
Halftone, with Tint Colors
Tri-Chromatic Halftone
Color Collotype
Photogravure
Pochoir, or Stencil Printing
Offset Lithography
Screen Printing

This book is produced through a partnership between RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press and Lulu.com.

From top: Cover, title page, detail of page 6.