Gelatin process
| a name applied to a number of processes in the arts, involving the use of gelatin. | |
| (Photog.) | A dry-plate process in which gelatin is used as a substitute for collodion as the sensitized material. This is the dry-plate process in general use, and plates of extreme sensitiveness are produced by it. |
| (Print.) | A method of producing photographic copies of drawings, engravings, printed pages, etc., and also of photographic pictures, which can be printed from in a press with ink, or (in some applications of the process) which can be used as the molds of stereotype or electrotype plates. |
| (Print. or Copying) | A method of producing facsimile copies of an original, written or drawn in aniline ink upon paper, thence transferred to a cake of gelatin softened with glycerin, from which impressions are taken upon ordinary paper. |
See also: Gelatin, Gelatin, Gelatin, Gelatin