Meanings of photo-engraving in English

Second: From zinc or half-tone plates made from drawings-generallydesignated as "photo-engraving".

Percy now works for a photo-engraving company in Newark.

Photography is the basis of all the mechanical processes that come under the general head of photo-engraving.

Most of the workder now do photo-engraving.

In photo-engraving a distinction must always be made between the reproduction of drawings in line and those with shaded tints.

Practically all book illustrations, as well as those in catalogues and periodicals of all kinds, are made by some method of photo-engraving.

M. Garnier has since greatly modified this method of obtaining an image by dusting, and applied it to various processes of photo-engraving.

Zinc etching is the simplest method of photo-engraving and should be thoroughly understood before one begins to inquire into the intricacies of the half-tone process.

Practically all things may be reproduced successfully by photo-engraving, but the vast majority of subjects that go to the photo-engraver are either photographs or drawings.

All methods of relief plate photo-engraving come under two general heads: "Half-tone" and "line engraving," the latter being very generally known as "zinc etching."

Photo-engraving in colors after the original mosaic panel by Frederick Dielman

Photo-engraving in colors after the original painting by George W. Maynard

Photo-engraving in colors after an original painting by George W. Maynard