four-color

American  

[fawr-kuhl-er, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌkʌl ər, ˈfoʊr- /

adjective

Printing.

1. noting or pertaining to a process for reproducing colored illustrations in a close approximation to their original hues by photographing the artwork successively through magenta, cyan, and yellow color-absorbing filters to produce four plates that are printed successively with yellow, red, blue, and black inks.

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He had to carry four-color pens, usually four at a time, that he would give out to anyone he met, even though the inscription identified the recipient as a thief.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

He was solving a problem at a New York printing plant that needed to control humidity to stop its four-color printing from running in the sweltering season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

Stan Lee, the mastermind of comics who plotted countless splats, yeeows and kabooms, created a four-color universe of crime fighters in tights that looked like New York, because it was.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2018

It is also an example that can be used in looking at the four-color theorem, another problem related to graph coloring.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 28, 2018

The plan, however, was not for the moment feasible; the cost of the four-color process was at that time prohibitive, and Bok had to abandon it.

From A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Haney, John Louis