Zincography

[ziŋ'kɒgrәfi]

Definition

(n.) The art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest of the ground being eaten away by acid.

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Definition

n. a process of etching on zinc (or copper) by which black and white pictures of all kinds can be reproduced as surface-blocks for printing by the ordinary letterpress process—in the etching the whites and not the black lines as in the ordinary etching are eaten away.—ns. Zinc′ograph a plate or picture produced by zincography; Zincog′rapher one who makes zincographic plates.—adjs. Zincograph′ic -al.

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