etched-surface printing
1printing — /prin ting/, n. 1. the art, process, or business of producing books, newspapers, etc., by impression from movable types, plates, etc. 2. the act of a person or thing that prints. 3. words, symbols, etc., in printed form. 4. printed material. 5.… …
2gravure printing — Printing processes used for catalogs, magazines, newspaper supplements, cartons, floor and wall coverings, textiles, and plastics. The Bohemian Karel Klíč made photogravure a practical commercial process in 1878. An image is etched in the copper… …
3rotogravure printing — ▪ printing system of printing based on the transfer of fluid ink from depressions in a printing plate to the paper. It is an intaglio process, so called because the design to be printed is etched or engraved below the surface of the… …
4Pad printing — is a printing process that can transfer a 2 D image onto a 3 D object. This is accomplished using an indirect offset (gravure) printing process that involves an image being transferred from the printing plate (cliché) via a silicone pad onto a… …
5Micro contact printing — Figure 1: PDMS master is created by patterning silicon, pouring and curing the PDMS, and peeling away from the substrate …
6Rotary printing press — Part of a series on the History of printing Woodblock p …
7engraved printing — Letterheads and other matter that are printed from a metal plate containing an etched design, for example. With this type of work the ink is slightly raised above the surface of the paper …
8photoengraving — /foh toh en gray ving/, n. 1. a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing. 2. a plate so produced. 3. a print made from it. [1870 75; PHOTO + ENGRAVING] * * * Any of several processes for producing printing plates …
9printmaking — /print may king/, n. the art or technique of making prints, esp. as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy. [1925 30; PRINT + MAKING] * * * Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but… …
10Laser engraving — is the practice of using lasers to engrave or mark an object. The technique can be very technical and complex, and often a computer system is used to drive the movements of the laser head. Despite this complexity, very precise and clean… …
