Compendium of Cartographic Techniques

Image Generation. Point plotting. Drawing techniques. Scribing. Cut and peel. Dry transfer technique. Stick-on technique. Lettering. Digital Data Capture. Keyboard entry of alphanumeric data. Manual digitizing. Raster scan digitization. Automatic line following (digitizing). Digital stereo compilation. Image Registration. Registration mark system. Pre-punch registration system. Stick-on pin registration system. Automatic Plotting and Output. Impact printers. Flatbed plotters (mechanical/optical). Drum plotters. Laser output devices. Electrostatic plotters. Contact Copying at Scale. Photographic contact copying of line negatives and positives. Photographic contact copying in continuous-tone. Photographic contact copying of continuous-tone in colour. Contact printing with dichromated colloids. Contact printing with photopolymer film. Diazo contact copying. Cyanotype or blueline process. Brown print or Vandyke copying process. Deep etch scribecoat copying process. Peel coat or strip mask technique. Copying of press plates for lithographic printing. Geometrical Image Transformations. Line photography (including cameras and microfilm reproduction). Continuous-tone photography. Colour photography. Value Transformations. Half-tone reproduction. Hard dot contact printing (tint screening). Changing line widths. Preparation of outlines. Photomechanical vignetting. Half-tone to continuous-tone conversion. Changing contrast for half-tone screening. Continuous-tone to line conversion. Density slicing. Edge enhancement (photoline technique). Phototone technique. Block-out technique (also called hold-out or fat mask technique). Image Separation. Manual colour separation of line work. Photographic colour separation of line work. Colour separation of continuous-tone images by photography. Image Combinations. Combination of negatives by contact printing. Combination of positives and negatives. Photomechanical colour-proofing. Combination of colours by overlay methods. Printing Processes. Lithographic offset printing. Letterpress or relief printing. Intaglio printing. Silkscreen printing. Collotype (photogelatin) printing. Electrostatic printing. Thermography.Curran, J. P. is the author of 'Compendium of Cartographic Techniques' with ISBN 9781851662296 and ISBN 1851662294.