contact printing

noun

1. the process of making contact prints.

Word History and Origins

Origin of contact printing¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

A parallel technology invented by the English scientist Henry Fox Talbot, which used salted paper to produce a negative and then, through contact printing, a positive image, took root quickly, as well, yielding thin but crisp photographs that didn’t have the distracting reflective background of the daguerreotype method.

From Washington Post

Using contact printing and pages ripped from magazines, Heinecken satirized the hypersexuality of models drinking from soda bottles or holding jewelry in their teeth.

From Architectural Digest

Principally used for Enlargements and Contact printing.

From Project Gutenberg

It was, however, generally employed by foreign photographers, and is now largely in use by English photographers, especially for the development of bromide paper, either for contact printing or enlargements.

From Project Gutenberg

A much easier method, applicable to glass originals, is that of photographic reproduction by contact printing.

From Project Gutenberg