platemaking
- noun
- /ˈpleɪtˌmeɪkɪŋ/
- Specialized
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fabricación de planchas
- The artist learned about platemaking to create detailed prints for his exhibition.
Examples
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Many traditional methods of platemaking are still practiced in printmaking studios today.
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The platemaking shop is south of Canal, on a grim street of granite and wrought iron.
Fiction book (2002) -
The shelves he builds always disappear into the platemaking room.
Fiction book (2002) -
Tom is a former partner in a platemaking shop, dumped long ago for some unknown disgrace.
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In the platemaking process, different materials are used to prepare the printing plates.
Synonyms
The process of making printing plates using light and photo film
The process of making printing plates from photos to print images
A metal plate made using a photograph to print clear pictures
A way of making a metal plate from set letters to print many copies
A method of cutting a design into a plate covered with wax to make prints
To scratch an image into a metal plate with a sharp needle to make prints
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Platemaking comes from the two simple words plate and making. The plate part means a 'flat metal sheet', like a dinner plate but metal, and making means 'making' those sheets for a printing press, so platemaking is the process of preparing the flat plates that hold the image for printing.
