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Unfortunately the color distinctions, with the limits of faceting and other artificial modifications, are obscure in the photomechanical reproduction; they are indicated more clearly in the outline drawing oversheet.
Defn: Designating a photomechanical process for making reproductions in natural colors by three printings.
Defn: To engrave, or make an engraving of, by any photomechanical process involving etching of the plate.
Defn: To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo- engraving of.
Defn: To represent by a colored print made by any photomechanical process.
Defn: Any print made by a photomechanical process.
In time, photographic processes came to be used for transferring pictures to the blocks and eventually, of course, photomechanical halftones replaced the wood engraver altogether.
Its use, therefore, multiplied increasingly until just before 1900, when it was superseded for these purposes by the photomechanical halftone.
As the process is entirely photomechanical it gives more scientific accuracy in detail than chromolithography, in which there is much hand work, and it is much less expensive.
The invention of a photomechanical process of reproducing a line drawing to make a metal plate that could be printed along with type on an ordinary printing press naturally led to attempts to reproduce similarly a photograph.
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