three-colour

British

adjective

of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours

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three-colour

This process is repeated if a three-colour design is desired.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

The best telescope objectives, and photographic objectives intended for three-colour work, are also apochromatic, even if they do not possess quite the same quality of correction as microscope objectives do.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

If I have many more such shocks as he gave me I shall give up paint altogether and specialise in photography or the three-colour process.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917 by Various

Probably, if Miss Greenaway's work were now repeated by the latest form of three-colour process, she would be less an "inheritor"—in this respect—"of unfulfilled renown."

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson

His gown in the reproduction is the best sample of three-colour work I had had done, and he was so pleased with my drawing that he bought it.

From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Leslie Ward

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