le nouveau procédé dit "aux encres grasses"

English translation: greasy ink/oily ink/printer's ink/tusche

09:13 Jun 16, 2002
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts) / Photography
French term or phrase: le nouveau procédé dit "aux encres grasses"
Newspaper article from cerca 1870 ref. new photographic procedure
Maddtrans
Local time: 03:06
English translation:greasy ink/oily ink/printer's ink/tusche
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Albert Golub
Local time: 04:06
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2greasy ink/oily ink/printer's ink/tusche
Albert Golub
4bold inks
DPolice
4oil-based ink
Tony M
3heavy ink
markmx


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
greasy ink/oily ink/printer's ink/tusche


Explanation:
see www.granddictionnaire.com
good luck

Albert Golub
Local time: 04:06
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
3 mins

agree  Pierre POUSSIN
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
heavy ink


Explanation:
just a guess

markmx
Local time: 04:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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bold inks


Explanation:
I do not know if the term was used in the 1870s.

DPolice
Local time: 04:06
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
oil-based ink


Explanation:
[as distinct from 'water-based'] --- but presumably in photographic terms, meaning 'printed with ink, rather than using the more common silver-halide process' --- for example, the later Technicolor dye-transfer cinematographic process

Tony M
France
Local time: 04:06
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 128
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