Meanings
- historicaluncountableartsAn early photographic technique, similar to zincography or lithography, using paper impregnated with an aluminium salt.
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"Process" is well to the fore, a design in colours from line blocks adorns the front cover, there are no less than seven examples of trichromotypography, various samples of half-tone with additional workings, three fine specimens of photogravure, a multi-colour subject, a collotype, a chromolithograph, examples respectively of algraphy, "granotype," Sprague's ink photo process, some twelve specimens of Johnstonia steel engraving and Johnston die press work, a very practical series of Linotype work—newspaper setting, book, magazine and jobbing work—an exeedingly interesting set, one or two type displays of little note, and some O.S. type specimens.
1901, The British Printer, volume 14, page 193Synonyms: photoalgraphy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn early photographic technique, similar to zincography or lithography, using paper impregnated with an aluminium salt.
Origin
From aluminium + -graphy by analogy with lithography or zincography.
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