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Por′ce-lain-print′ing.

The transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain in the biscuit or the glazed condition. The former is called press-printing; the latter, bat-printing.

In press-printing, the engraving is very heavy, is taken on pottery-tissue paper, transferred to the biscuit by rubbing with soaped flannel and then a roll of flannel; the paper is then damped off, and the oil of the ink driven off by heating the biscuit in a hardening-kiln, previous to glazing.

In bat-printing, the lines of the engraving are more delicate. The impression is taken in linseedoil on a slab of damp glue, and transferred from thence to the glazed ware. Color is then dusted on to the oil, and the ware is fired in an enamel kiln.

Printing on porcelain, or the transferring of printed impressions to biscuit, was introduced by Dr. Wale of Worcester about 1751. The Prussians refer the discovery of the process to the year 1757.

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