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block printing

noun — 2 senses

block printing

noun
1

A method of printing cotton cloth and paperhangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with colouring matter.

2

Synonym of woodblock printing.

  • This invention seems never to have been developed to any practical application in superseding block-printing.1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants:

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