Definition of Relief printing

1. Noun. Printing from a plate with raised characters.

Exact synonyms: Letterpress
Generic synonyms: Printing, Printing Process

Lexicographical Neighbors of Relief Printing

relictions
relicts
relictual
relide
relie
relied
relief
relief agencies
relief agency
relief area
relief chamber
relief map
relief maps
relief pitcher
relief pitchers
relief printing (current term)
relief valve
relief valves
relief work
relief worker
relief workers
reliefful
reliefless
relieflike
reliefs
relier
reliers
relies
reliest
relieth

Literary usage of Relief printing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Publishers' and Stationers' Weekly Trade Circular by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia (1872)
"WE present in this issue a specimen of the improved Woodbury process of relief printing, produced by the Photo-relief printing Co., Philadelphia. ..."

2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... in a manner differing essentially from letter-press or relief printing on the one hand and steel and copper plate or intaglio printing on the other. ..."

3. A Manual of Photography: Founded on Hardwich's Photographic Chemistry by George Dawson, Thomas Frederick Hardwich (1873)
"WOODBURY'S PROCESS; OR PHOTO-relief printing. Any good Negative suits for this process, but the details of manipulation are not very easy. ..."

4. The Cyclopædia of Education: A Dictionary of Information for the Use of by Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem (1883)
"The first book in English printed in relief was issued by James Uall.of Edinburgh, in 1827; and two years afterward, he introduced relief printing in London ..."

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