# Chromotypograph

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**Chromotypograph** refers to any number of obsolete graphic arts or printing processes which used cold and warm rinse etching baths to create surfaces by which color images could be [relief printed](/source/Relief_print) from zinc plates in the letterpress manner.

Such processes, as pioneered by [Firmin Gillot](/source/Firmin_Gillot) represent a prototyping and experimental stage between the manual and process printing eras and are characterized by their utilization of various hand-originated textures and photographically transferred tones or outlines, which when combined with other color plates produced in a like manner could produce continuous tone color images unlike those found in similar technologies such as [chromolithography](/source/Chromolithography).

Chromotypograph is the preferred description for a number of process which include but are not limited to photo color relief, [gillotage](/source/Gillotage), chromotype, color relief [etching](/source/Etching), [zincography](/source/Zincography), [chromoxylography](/source/Chromoxylography), color line block, glyptotype, Dallastint, Dallastype.

## External links

- [LeRire.com](http://www.lerire.com) - Features examples of Chromotypographic illustration.
- [L'assiette au beurre](https://web.archive.org/web/20060502142611/http://www.assietteaubeurre.com/) - Belle epoque Chrmotypograph Journal.

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