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anastatic printing


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Preferred Term

anastatic printing

Details

A process of relief etching, usually on zinc plates, used in the 19th century to reproduce existing printed material, including drawings and pages of type.

Variations

etching, zinc

printing, anastatic

zinc etching

Broader Term

relief etching

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