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bat printing

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noun

  1. ornamenting of ceramics by means of an adhesive substance, as linseed oil, transferred onto the ceramic surface from a sheet of glue or gelatin, dusted with color, and fired.

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Bat printing succeeded the printing from engraved or etched plates.

From Project Gutenberg

You see it was at Worcester that they invented that variation of the transfer printing process that they called bat printing, where they used oil instead of ink, and gelatine instead of paper.

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