Printing ink: a history with a treatise on modern methods of manufacture and use

Contents

History of ink in China (2 pts.) -- History of ink in Japan -- History of ink in Central Asia -- History of ink in India -- History of ink in Egypt, Palestine, Greece, and Italy -- History of ink in Europe to the modern era -- The development of the printing-ink industry -- Methods of printing now in general use, and observations about inks -- Some chemical properties of printing ink (the manufacturing side) -- Oils, varnishes, driers applied to the manufacture of printing inks -- Black pigments for printing ink -- Hydro-carbon gas black -- The birth of an industry -- Colored pigments for printing ink -- natural and artificial -- The history of plate and intaglio inks -- Lithography, including the modern offset process and ink -- Photo-engraving, halftone, and process color inks -- History and process of rotary intaglio printing inks -- Present-day methods of ink-making -- Etymology of the term "ink."