Color printing began with Alois Senefelder, who developed the process we now know as lithography, printing using a variety of limestone. Before there was process color with offset lithography, there was chromolithography, color printing using litho stones which overlaid different colors. Frank provides a short history of chromolithography, Louis Prang, its most famous practitioner, and shows some beautiful samples of this colorful printing art produced from 1900 to 1910. After 1910, CMYK inks were formulated and offset began the path to color printing.
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By Werner Rebsamen on Oct 23, 2020
Frank - thank you so much for this most interesting video. That is an amazing collection! As bookbinders, we use Litho Stones for skiing leather and other finishing tasks, I have several of them but none with such beautiful images on it. Thanks for sharing such fascinating history of printing.
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