1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / B / Blacks. [p. 9]
When a space, quadrat, or furniture rises and is imprinted on the sheet. Also used when woodcuts and electros are not sufficiently cleared out, and print the low parts.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.