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  • T trønderen

    I've been searching back and forth, mostly in Wikipedia - for googling, I am apparently unable to find the right search terms; all my attempts produce millions of hits of which the first 200+ are irrelevant :-) So I am hoping for some more knowledgeable advice that "Just F google it!" :-) My problem: At what (approximate) time did newspapers get technology letting them transfer a photograph (or for that sake, any flat image such as a painting) to a press more or less "automatically", in the sense that there was no need for a graphic worker / artist to copy the image by hand to some traditional technology such as lithography? For all I know, maybe the actual printing used lithographic techniques, which is quite old. The problem is transferring a photograph to this plate. Or some other technology. When did it appear, and what was the technology called? (Background for asking: Reading a 'historic' children's book taking place in the 1800s, written by a well known author. I strongly suspect that the author is taking historic liberties when he tells about the photograph that was published on the front page of the local newspaper. I'd like to have some more facts before holding this against the author :-))

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    Halftone is the keyword you're looking for. Read the History section of Halftone - Wikipedia[^]

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    • T trønderen

      I've been searching back and forth, mostly in Wikipedia - for googling, I am apparently unable to find the right search terms; all my attempts produce millions of hits of which the first 200+ are irrelevant :-) So I am hoping for some more knowledgeable advice that "Just F google it!" :-) My problem: At what (approximate) time did newspapers get technology letting them transfer a photograph (or for that sake, any flat image such as a painting) to a press more or less "automatically", in the sense that there was no need for a graphic worker / artist to copy the image by hand to some traditional technology such as lithography? For all I know, maybe the actual printing used lithographic techniques, which is quite old. The problem is transferring a photograph to this plate. Or some other technology. When did it appear, and what was the technology called? (Background for asking: Reading a 'historic' children's book taking place in the 1800s, written by a well known author. I strongly suspect that the author is taking historic liberties when he tells about the photograph that was published on the front page of the local newspaper. I'd like to have some more facts before holding this against the author :-))

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      It seems that the first photography printed in newspaper belongs to the French in 1848... Photojournalism - Wikipedia[^]

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        The only time you used multiple passes was when you wanted actual colour: four passes, four colours: CMYK But that came a lot later, newspapers were black and white (and messed your hands up which is why gentlemen wore gloves to red The Times) for a long time. Registration was a bitch: getting all four colours to line up on the paper was no fun at all! :laugh:

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        OriginalGriff wrote:

        Registration was a bitch: getting all four colours to line up on the paper was no fun at all! :laugh:

        Trying to get just 2 colors to line up correctly in a block print in my HS art class was bad enough. X|

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