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MIMEOGRAPHING [2 records]

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Record 1 2016-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Graphic Arts and Printing
DEF

The reproduction of images by applying ink selectively to the image areas of the final printed piece and preventing its application to non-image areas.

OBS

The essential differences among printing processes lie in the means by which they separate the image areas from the non-image areas. The four major printing processes in use today are letterpress, flexography, offset lithography and gravure. Other printing processes include collotype, steel-die engraving, thermography, screen printing, mimeographing, and electrostatic printing.

OBS

printing: term standardized by Environment Canada and the Translation Bureau for use in the Air Pollutant Emission Inventory Report.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques
DEF

Art de reproduire des textes ou des illustrations en décalquant par pression, sur un support, l'encre préalablement déposée sur une forme d'impression dont certaines parties sont capables de prendre, puis de céder l'encre.

OBS

Actuellement les quatre procédés principaux sont la typographie, la flexographie, l'offset et l'héliogravure. En plus, il y a d'autres procédés particuliers, tels que la sérigraphie, le timbrage, la phototypie et le gaufrage.

OBS

imprimerie : terme normalisé par Environnement Canada et le Bureau de la traduction dans le cadre de l'Inventaire des émissions de polluants atmosphériques.

Spanish

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Record 2 1987-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
  • Office-Work Organization
DEF

an independent agency that handles secretarial and office work(as mailing, mimeographing, and bookkeeping) on a job basis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
  • Organisation du travail de bureau

Spanish

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