Decalcomania
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Decalcomania
a method in printing of preparing pictures and designs (children’s pictures, labels, trademarks, and so forth) that are to be transferred onto paper, wood, metal, china, and the like. The process involves printing the picture by means of lithography on paper that is specially primed with a layer of glue. To transfer the picture, it is soaked or heated, as a result of which the glue priming dissolves and the colored film is transferred onto the surface of the paper or other material.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Colored designs on special paper for transfer to unglazed or glazed ceramic ware or glass.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.