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process printing

process printing

5.6
A way of making full-color images using four color inks
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : impresión en proceso
  • The magazine uses process printing to achieve vivid and detailed color photographs.

Examples

  • High-quality brochures are often created through process printing techniques.

  • I learned about process printing in my graphic design class.

  • Thanks to advances in process printing, reproducing artwork in full color has become more affordable.

  • The process printing technique is essential for high-quality color images.

  • Thanks to advances in process printing, reproducing artwork in full color has become more affordable.

  • The magazine uses process printing to achieve vivid and detailed color photographs.

  • High-quality brochures are often created through process printing techniques.

How Colorful

process printing
  • Specialized
5.6
printing
31 1.0

Surface Forms

process printing singular
process printings plural

Morphology

process + printing

The compound combines 'process' (a method or series of steps) with 'printing' (the act of producing printed material), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer it refers to a method of printing. The detailed technicalities (halftone plates, CMYK) are specialized vocabulary but do not block the basic, compositional meaning, making the expression transparent to B1 learners.

Etymology

Process printing comes from the idea of making a full-color picture in separate process steps: printers add each main color one at a time so the image is built up layer by layer. So, process printing means 'a method of producing full-color images by printing several color layers'.