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composition, typography
art and technique of printing with movable type
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letterpress, relief printing
printing from a plate with raised characters
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gravure, intaglio, intaglio printing
a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print
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process printing
a method of printing colored reproductions from halftone plates
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planographic printing, planography
the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent)
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offset, offset printing
a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
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carbon process
a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment
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photogravure
printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods
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collotype, collotype printing, photogelatin process
a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors
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lithography
a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface
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photo-offset, photo-offset printing
a method of offset printing using photomechanical plates
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letterset printing
image is transferred from a relief type plate to a roller
