block printing

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Noun

block printing (uncountable)

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.
   • 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:

     This invention seems never to have been developed to any practical application in superseding block-printing.