Chromolithography

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Goodwin & Company baseball trading card (N162, 1888), printed in chromolithography.
Goodwin & Company baseball trading card (N162, 1888), printed in chromolithography.

Chromolithography was the first method for making true multi-color prints. (Before the chromolithograph, prints were colored in by hand.) First commercialized by Godefroy Engelmann[1] of France in the 1830s, it was based on lithography which used flat stone slabs on which an image is drawn on the surface, but used separate stones for separate colors or impressions. Later, zinc plates were used. Offset printing replaced chromolithography around the 1930s.

Lithography is a form of planographic printing, meaning that the surface is flat, in contrast to relief printing (using a raised surface) or intaglio printing (using an incised surface).

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  1. ^ Artfact.com