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

It is used for making prints by contact with a negative in the ordinary printing frame, and as the simplest means for obtaining enlarged prints from small negatives.

From Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements by Tennant, John A.

It should then be put in the printing frame in the same way as the cyanotype paper and exposed to the sun.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 by Elverson, James

The paper is then dried and a positive made from it by placing it on the glass of a printing frame, and laying the positive paper upon it, and exposing as before.

From Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades by Ford, J. Sawtelle

The printing frame is that used by photographers.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

I obtain a piece of the bichromatized gelatine paper previously mentioned, and place it on the face of the negative in a printing frame.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various