four-colour

British  

noun

1. (modifier) (of a print or photographic process) using the principle in which four colours (magenta, cyan, yellow, and black) are used in combination to produce almost any other colour

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four-colour

He was among a new wave of British illustrators who began work in the 1950s and 60s, an extraordinary flowering, benefiting from the greater availability of four-colour half-tone printing.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012

Cartes de Dion—Excellent four-colour maps of certain sections environing the great cities.

From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

A most useful condensed and abbreviated gazetteer of France, with a series of handy four-colour maps showing main roads sufficiently clearly for real use as an automobile route-book.

From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Occasionally three and four-colour machines are used, but the one-colour type is probably the most common.

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by T. Woodhouse