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Pre-photographic

Intaglio
Planographic
Relief

Photomechanical

Collotype
Letterpress
Offset Lithography
Photogravure
Rotogravure
Woodburytype

Photographic

Albumen
Ambrotype
Bromoil
Bromoil Transfer
Carbon
Carbro
Chromogenic
Collodion POP
Cyanotype
Daguerreotype
Direct Carbon (Fresson)
Dye Imbibition
Gelatin Dry Plate
Gelatin POP
Gum Dichromate
Instant (Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Internal Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Matte Collodion
Platinum
Salted Paper
Screen Plate
Silver Dye Bleach
Silver Gelatin DOP
Tintype
Wet Plate Collodion

Digital

Electrophotography
Inkjet
Thermal

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Notes on this view:

This color image is printed from two wood engraving blocks, one for each color in the print. Wood engraving is a relief process, where the non-image areas are removed from the block; once carved, the remaining lines of the image - raised above the surface of the block - are rolled or stamped with ink and pressed onto the paper to print the image. Color wood engravings were primarily made as art reproductions or reproductive illustrations during the 19th century, when they were also known as chromoxylographs -meaning color from wood, just as chromolithograph means color from stone. Technically, any color woodcut or wood engraving could be called a chromoxylograph, but the term is usually reserved for reproductive color wood engravings.