Use coarse ■ screen halftone only if to be used on nesvsprint or rough paper.

Line engraving will produce tones

Line engraving will not reproiluce tones.

If photograph shows only solid areas of black-andwhite, or lines and no tones, a line engraving may be used.

Color process plates mav be used in < on junction with additional flat tints for special effects.

Halftones unsuited, as they form an iMulesirable "pattern" and hre.ik up the solid areas

(iosts can often be reduced by having an artist make a separate black ■ and - white drawing on tissue (so as to secure register) for each color. Separate line engravings are then made from each.

The Colton Press, New York City, "Production Yearbook," Vol. V, 19.19.

Reproduction Media for Art Work.

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PREPARATION OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Lawrrncr W I>rapKfr. "The Art of Linoleum Cutting. " 1Q38. Publithed by Government Printing Office Apprentice School, Washington, D. C.

A Linoleum Block Cut.

1. Linoleum or wood blocks may be used for the actual printinj;. In fact, the first printed

letters were wood-cut type carved into pictorial wood-cut blocks in explanation of the picture. Its wide use and the ease with which it is cut have made linoleum one of the best known and best liked materials in the reproduction of decorative designs, silhouettes, and the simpler illustrations.

2. In a great many printing plants, linoleum blocks, which are supplanting wood, are cut

for tint blocks, second-color plates, for use in graphs and charts, for indicating