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Overprinting

Scope note

Use for any process of printing new matter over, or on the same sheet as, already printed matter, including one color over another to produce a mixture of the two.

This term has 1 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053324

Broader Terms used

<printing techniques>

Equivalent Terms used

overprinted

Created

13yrs ago

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