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Monochrome printmaking

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Monochrome printmaking
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Monochrome printmaking is a generic term for any printmaking technique that produces only shades of a single color. While the term may include ordinary printing with only two colors — "ink" and "no ink" — it usually implies the ability to produce several intermediate colors between those two extremes.

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Saint Agnes, mezzotint by John Smith after Godfrey Kneller.[1]
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1835 aquatint showing the first production of I puritani.
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Coquetry, lithograph by Henri Baron (1816-1885).

In contrast with color printing, monochrome printing needs only a single ink and may require only a single pass of the paper through the printing press.

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Halftone newspaper photo of Ernst Alexanderson. The Cordova Daily Times, Cordova, 1920-01-17.
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Techniques

Monochrome printmaking techniques include:

See also

References

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