See Also: cobbra(dictionary)
colour(encyclopedia)
self-colour(dictionary)
colour bar(dictionary)
colour(2)(dictionary)
colour(1)(dictionary)
Colour(medicine)
off-colour(dictionary)
Eye colour(medicine)
colour blindness(encyclopedia)

colour printing (sh) and cobbra (iou)


colour printing (sh)




Specialized printing technique using coloured inks and modified presses.

Juxtaposition of colours is achieved by submitting each sheet to successive impressions by typeforms each of which prints only on areas designed to carry a single colour and inked only in that colour. Three colours of ink can reconstitute the visual effect of all the range of colours by combining them appropriately; if all three inks are applied to an area, it almost appears black. Standard colour printing, called four-colour printing, employs magenta, yellow, cyan (blue), and black inks.


cobbra (iou)



cobbra noun. Austral. Now rare. Also cobra. M19.
[Aboriginal gabara.]
The head; the skull.