printing frame
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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An ordinary postal-card printing frame, D, with a hinged back was used and placed on the shelf A, as shown.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousThe negative is placed in a printing frame over the sensitized zinc and a print is made.
The Building of a Book | VariousThe ground glass can conveniently be placed in another printing frame, and both placed up against each other.
Provision is then made to fit into the frame a quarter-plate printing frame, in which is placed the negative.
Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do | AnonymousSome workers have thought that the light action goes on, "continues" in the print after it is removed from the printing frame.
The Barnet Book of Photography | Various
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