printing frame

American  

noun

Photography.

1. a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.

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Etymology

Origin of printing frame

First recorded in 1870–75

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printing frame

With an efficient printing frame and suitable negatives, these blue lines will never appear, and it was to prevent the production of defective work that I undertook to improve the pad of the printing frame.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various

As a rule, it is advantageous to cover the printing frame with tissue paper, whatever be the quality of the negatives.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Peter C. Duchochois

A printing frame is placed in the carrier, and exposed to the light of a gas burner kept at a fixed distance, behind which is a spherical reflector.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various

The silk must be handled carefully while in the printing frame for this reason, but apart from that, there is no particular difficulty.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

Hold the two together, or place them in a printing frame, and turn them over so that the light will shine through the negative upon the greenish side of the blueprint paper.

From Common Science by John W. (John Woodside) Ritchie