photoengraving

Thân thiện

A printer examines a photoengraving plate under a bright light.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A photomechanical printing process: "photoengraving" refers to a process for making printing plates by photographing an image onto a metal plate coated with a light-sensitive substance, which is then etched.
   • The plate or print produced by this process: "photoengraving" can also mean the engraved plate itself or the illustration reproduced from it.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The magazine used photoengraving to reproduce the detailed sketches.
  • He examined the photoengraving under a magnifying glass to check its clarity.

Advanced Usage

• Technical Context: In historical printing terminology, "photoengraving" specifically denotes the halftone process for reproducing photographs, as opposed to line engravings for text or line art.
  • Early 20th-century newspapers relied heavily on photoengraving for their pictorial sections.

Variants and Related Words

• Photoengrave (verb): To make a photoengraving of something.
  • They needed to photoengrave the portrait for the front page.
• Photoengraver (noun): A person or machine that makes photoengravings.

Synonyms

• Halftone engraving: A synonym emphasizing the use of dots to create shades of gray.
• Photogravure: A related intaglio printing process, though often of higher quality and used for finer art reproductions.

Related Phrases

• Make a photoengraving: The standard phrase for the act of creating one.
  • The studio will make a photoengraving from your original photograph.

Học thuật

Noun

1. an engraving used to reproduce an illustration

Từ đồng nghĩa

• halftone
• halftone engraving