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Ben Day process

(Encyclopedia)Ben Day, or Benday, process: see printing. ...

lithography

(Encyclopedia)lithography lĭthŏgˈrəfē [key], type of planographic or surface printing. It is distinguished from letterpress (relief) printing and from intaglio printing (in which the design is cut or etched in...

collotype

(Encyclopedia)collotype kŏlˈətīpˌ [key]: see printing. ...

half tone

(Encyclopedia)half tone: see photoengraving; printing. ...

monotype

(Encyclopedia)monotype, type set by the Monotype machine. See printing. ...

Thomas, Isaiah

(Encyclopedia)Thomas, Isaiah, 1749–1831, American patriot and printer, from Worcester, Mass. Thomas printed outspoken Whig editorials in the Massachusetts Spy, a newspaper that he helped to found. He fought at th...

Updike, Daniel Berkeley

(Encyclopedia)Updike, Daniel Berkeley ŭpˈdīkˌ [key], 1860–1941, American printer and historian of typography, b. Providence, R.I. At the Merrymount Press, which he founded in 1893 in Boston, his stated purpos...
 

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