Monochrome printmaking

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

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.

In contrast with

ink and may require only a single pass of the paper through the printing press
.

Cordova
, 1920-01-17.

Techniques

Monochrome printmaking techniques include:

See also

References