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2. Tintype - Wikipedia

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   A tintype, also known as a melanotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called 'tin' (though not actually tin-coated), coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. It was introduced in 1853 by Adolphe Alexandre Martin in Paris ...

3. Photogravure - Wikipedia

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   Photogravure. Photogravure (in French héliogravure) is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and then coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive ...

4. History of photography - Wikipedia

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   The earliest known surviving heliographic engraving, made in 1822. It was printed from a metal plate made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce with his "heliographic process". [32] The plate was exposed under an ordinary engraving and copied it by photographic means. This was a step towards the first permanent photograph from nature taken with a camera ...

5. Lithography - Wikipedia

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   e. Lithography (from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos) 'stone' and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') [1] is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. [2] The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German author and ...

6. Offset printing - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier.

7. Printmaking - Wikipedia

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   Photo-lithography captures an image by photographic processes on metal plates; printing is more or less carried out in the same way as stone lithography. Halftone lithography produces an image that illustrates a gradient-like quality. Mokulito is a form of lithography on wood instead of limestone. It was invented by Seishi Ozaku in the 1970s in ...