printing-frame love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In photography, a quadrangular frame in which sensitized paper is placed beneath a negative held firmly in position and exposed to the direct rays of light. Also called pressure-frame and press.

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Examples

  • Even the papers were there, all prepared, and before laying in the printing-frame upon the negatives, it was sufficient to soak them for a few minutes in the solution of nitrate of silver.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • Even the papers were there, all prepared, and before laying in the printing-frame upon the negatives, it was sufficient to soak them for a few minutes in the solution of nitrate of silver.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • I may mention that I recommend a short exposure in the printing-frame and slow development, in order to get sufficient intensity.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

  • These bitumen plates are so thoroughly opaque to the penetration of the actinic rays, that the printing-frame may be left for any time in full sunlight without any fear of fog being produced on the zinc plate from which the prints are to be taken.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various

  • The remarkable similarity of such a slide to the automatic printing-frame described last week will strike the reader; and, like the printing-frame, it possesses the advantage of speed in working -- no small consideration to the photographer in a distant, and possibly hostile, country.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various

  • I take the negative and place it in the printing-frame, holding it in its place with a couple of tacks, film-side next the lens, just as in printing; then stand the printing frame on its edge on the flat board, and place the ground glass in front of it -- when I say in front of it, I mean not between the negative and lens, but between the light and the negative.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 Various

  • Vienna, since he only employs the slower and more careful hand press, prefers plate glass of ordinary thickness as being handier in manipulation and better adapted to the common printing-frame.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various

  • If these crystals be dissolved in water, and paper washed with a strong solution, when dry it may be exposed in the printing-frame, giving full time.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 Various

  • I would see him holding a negative up to the light, at others manipulating a photographic printing-frame; and once I observed him with

    John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

  • a sepia color, and, in a printing-frame, they render a visible image, which is not the case with bitumen; their solvents are in the order of their energy; chloroform, ether, benzine, turpentine, petroleum spirit, and alcohol.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various

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