carbon process

American  

noun

1. a method of making photographic prints by the use of a pigment, as carbon, contained in sensitized gelatin.

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carbon process British  

noun

1. a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine

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Etymology

Origin of carbon process

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Effects heretofore to be had only by the laborious carbon process can now be secured by any amateur photographer with this new paper.

From Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company

The Artigues process is an adaptation for the purposes in question of the carbon process invented by Poitevin.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

On the 5th of April, 1864, I attended a meeting of the Photographic Society at King’s College, and heard Mr. J. W. Swan read a paper on his new patent carbon process.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John

A new carbon process by M. Carey Lea was published this year.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John

John Robert Johnson’s carbon process double transfer patented.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John