Elimination technique

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The elimination technique is a technique used in woodblock printing to allow multi-color printing from a single plate.

The plate is trimmed to print one color, then the plate is processed further to print the next color. The sophisticated technology does not allow proofs of the end result and must therefore be carefully planned. This also applies to the use of colors, whereby the order of the colors to be printed is usually from light to dark.