photomechanical

Examples

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• During the past twenty years, we have been witnessing a digitally driven paradigm shift in processes of image production and distribution, equivalent in stature to the emergence of photomechanical reproduction processes in the mid-nineteenth century.

  Academic text (2012)

• A fourth software unit, EGAPaint, allowed us to add cartographic embellishments, shading, and text, and was also used in printing the map products before their photomechanical transfer to glossy PMT paper through the use of a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer.

  Academic text (1991)

• Moreover, with increased technical capacity for photomechanical reproduction...

  Academic text (1998)

• Anxiety about the impact of the photographic (and more particularly the photomechanical) image on historical and collective memory formed a key strand of critical writing about photography in the 1920s and '30s.

  Academic text (2000)

• Yet, in at least one significant way, socialist realism approaches Greenberg's modernism: it expresses a profound skepticism about the cultural effects of photomechanical reproduction.

  Academic text (2000)

• Similar concepts of thermo- or photomechanical failure were independently formulated in the investigations of laser irradiation of polymers and biomaterials.

  Academic text (2018)

• The photomechanical process has revolutionized the production of high-quality prints.

• Using photomechanical techniques, the artist produced stunning reproductions of classic artworks.

• Many graphic designers rely on photomechanical methods to create detailed print materials.

Synonyms

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photolithographic

vsphotomechanical

• Specialized

9.8

A way that uses light to make very small patterns on surfaces like silicon for computer chips

focuses on making printing plates and physical prints rather than electronic patterns

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology