collotype printing

1. 1.

   a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors

   Synonymscollotypephotogelatin process

   Broaderplanographic printing

   Narrowerhectograph

Questions about collotype printing

What does collotype printing mean?

collotype printing means "a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors".

What is another word for collotype printing?

Close synonyms include collotype, photogelatin process. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is collotype printing a common word?

collotype printing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.