Monochrome printmaking

Monochrome printmaking is a generic term for any printmaking technique that produces only shades of a single color.

While the term may include ordinary printing with only two colors — "ink" and "no ink" — it usually implies the ability to produce several intermediate colors between those two extremes.

In contrast with color printing, monochrome printing needs only a single ink and may require only a single pass of the paper through the printing press.

Monochrome printmaking techniques include:

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Saint Agnes , mezzotint by John Smith after Godfrey Kneller . [ 1 ]
1835 aquatint showing the first production of I puritani .
Coquetry , lithograph by Henri Baron (1816-1885).
Halftone newspaper photo of Ernst Alexanderson . The Cordova Daily Times , Cordova , 1920-01-17.