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Meaning of WOODBURY-TYPE

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Wood"bur*y-type`\, n. [After the name of the
inventor, W. Woodbury.]
1. A process in photographic printing, in which a relief
   pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain
   operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft
   metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which
   pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process
   than in common printing.

2. A print from such a plate.

 

 

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