Electro-Tint Engraving Company promotional book
Contributors: Dill & Collins
Publisher: Electro-Tint Engraving Company
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Photoengraving; Specimens; Printing; Color prints
Description: The Electro-Tint Engraving Company, Philadelphia started in business in 1888 supplying electrotypes from art. Eventually their primary business, starting in about 1898, was supplying printing plates for three-color printing to companies throughout the US. This saved printers the difficulty of making color separations and accurate plate making. This Electro-Tint Engraving Company sample book: Three-Color Album, ND (ca. 1900), 10 un-numbered pages of three color halftone illustrations from art. The last page gives an explanation for ordering the printing plates for each of the illustrations at $1.00 per sq. inch for copper and 75 cents per sq. inch for electrotypes. -- David A. Hanson documentation.
Notes: Title devised.

"The illustrations in this book were printed in but three colors, from our three-color process plates, the multi-colored effects having been obtained by a photographic combination of red, yellow and blue, the three primary colors."-- page [12]

"Printed on D Trade Mark 'trichromatic,' coated on two sides. Dill & Collins, makers of high-grade papers, Philadelphia."--page [12]

Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction.