colour printingprocess whereby illustrative material is reproduced in colour on the printed page. The four-colour process is used to produce a complete range of colours. In this process, the material to be reproduced is separated into three basic colours plus black, which is used for density and image contrast. The basic colours are cyan, a combination of blue and green; magenta, a combination of red and......this work, and in a further development, colours were printed, either as solids or tints, from hand-engraved plates. All of the work was crude by modern standards, however, and nothing approaching four-colour process printing was possible.
Four-colour process printing
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