photoplate making

1. 1.

   the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods

   “photomechanics revolutionized the practice of printing”

   Synonymsphotomechanics

   Broaderphotography

Questions about photoplate making

What does photoplate making mean?

photoplate making means "the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods".

What is another word for photoplate making?

Close synonyms include photomechanics. 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 photoplate making a common word?

photoplate making 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.