• Before Printing: Early Manuscripts
  
• Manuscript Codex to Printed Book
  
• Early Printing Shop &German Printing
• Printing & Renaissance Humanism
• Printing and the Reformation
• Printing, Science, and Exploration

Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century
An Exhibition at the Hugh M. Morris Library
University of Delaware Library Newark, Delaware

The nineteenth century was the turning point for technical development in color illustration. At the beginning of the century, books with color plates were hand-colored by the artist, using techniques dating back to the Renaissance. A hundred years later, the photo-reproductive techniques and the steam-driven printing press took printing out of the hands of the artist and introduced processes which would be used until the computer revolution of our day. Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century documents these changes in color printing technology by displaying some of the finest examples of books illustrated in color, published from the last quarter of the eighteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century.

Introduction Intaglio Processes Relief Processes

Lithography Nature Printing

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Flexography is the major process used to print packaging materials

Gravure printing is characteristically used for long run, high quality printing producing a sharp, fine image.

Letterpress is the oldest method of printing with equipment and images printed by the "Relief" type printing plates

Lithographic printing is well suited for printing both text and illustrations in short to medium length runs of up to 1,000,000 impressions.

The various plateless printing processes are quite different from the five major conventional printing processes

Screen printing is arguably the most versatile of all printing processes. It can be used to print on a wide variety of substrates,

Serigraphy is a term
describing the silkscreen
process when used for fine art

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