three-colour

adjective

of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours

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These three topical colours are applied at once by the three-colour cylinder machine; dried and steamed.

In colour reproduction, a method largely used is that known as the three-colour process.

Three-colour process blocks, being a development of this, are open to the same objections.

Between 1755 and 1764, the great period of the three-colour print, Toyonobu stood almost unmatched in the field.

His work falls almost entirely within the class of two- and three-colour prints.

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