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photozincography|ˌfəʊtəʊzɪŋˈkɒgrəfɪ| [f. photo- + zinc + -graphy.] The art or process of producing by photographic methods a design on a zinc plate from which prints can be taken (analogous to photolithography). Hence photoˈzincograph n., a plate, or a picture or facsimile, produced by photozincography; photoˈzincograph v. trans., to produce or copy by photozincography; ˌphotozincoˈgraphic, -ical adjs., of or pertaining to, of the nature of, or produced by photozincography.
1860Sir H. James Rep. Progr. Ordnance Survey (Feb. 4) 6 (Parl. Papers XXIII. 400) We have also tried a method..by which the reduced print is in a state to be at once transferred to stone or zinc, from which any number of copies can be taken, as in ordinary lithographic or zincographic printing... I have called this new method Photo-zincography. 1860― Photo-zincography 5 By the term Photo-Zincography is meant..the art of producing a photographic facsimile of any subject, such as a manuscript, a map, or line engraving, and transferring the photograph to zinc, thereby obtaining the power of multiplying copies in the same manner as is done from a drawing on a lithographic stone, or on a zinc plate. 1861(title) Domesday Book: Cornwall. Photo-Zincographed..at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. 1862Scott & James Photo-zincography Pref. 4 This was the first Photo-zincograph ever taken here or elsewhere. Ibid. 1 The Photo-zincographic and Analogous Processes practised at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. 1865Pall Mall G. 4 Aug. 11/1 With large photo-zincographical plates prepared at Southampton under the superintendence of Sir Henry James. 1866Contemp. Rev. III. 520 The reproduction of facsimiles by the photozincographic process. 1877Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. Introd. 50 The process of photozincography is available. 1895Q. Rev. Jan. 56 The sheets..are photozincographed. |