printing frame

noun Photography.

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.

Origin of printing frame

First recorded in 1870–75

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Examples from the Web for printing frame

Generally a lever press is so made that the printing-frame can be raised or lowered according to the thickness of the stone.
The Invention of Lithography|Alois Senefelder
It is far better to have a printing-frame that is so fixed that it will never shift its position in the slightest degree.
The Invention of Lithography|Alois Senefelder
The printing-frame must have a clear glass which just fits it.
Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895|Various
Above the cylinder is a board on which is fastened the stone with the printing-frame.
The Invention of Lithography|Alois Senefelder