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.

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

four-color

Eleven years after the publication of the first proof, both proofs were overturned and the slippery four-color theorem reverted its status back to the four-color conjecture.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 24, 2023

Come Tees was — and is — rooted in DIY process and ethics, though it’s grown too big for Sombreuil to do everything herself anymore with a 500-watt bulb on her four-color tabletop press.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022

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

“A three- or four-color print hides a lot of reality.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 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 John Louis Haney