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carbon process

A photographic printing process using permanent pigments, such as carbon, contained in a sensitized tissue or film of gelatin.

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carbon process

carbon printing

(Photography) a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine

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carbon process - a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment

printing process, printing - reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

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