Selectasinen.
/sɪˈlɛktəsiːn/ The proprietary name of a colour-printing process which uses a single silk screen for each of the colours (see quot. 1934).
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1918 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Jan. 1075/1 Method of delineating or reproducing pictures and designs... Assignors to Selectasine System, San Francisco, Cal., a Corporation of California. Filed Dec. 1, 1915.
1926 H. L. Hiett Man. Stencil Screen Process Work 79 Invented by Edward A. Owens, San Francisco, Cal., assignor to Selectasine System, Inc., San Francisco.
1934 H. Curwen Processes of Graphic Reproduction in Printing i. 40 Selectasine is best suited to showcards of very bold design... A sheet of fabric ready impregnated with wax is the basis, and one sheet is used for each colour of the design. The wax filling is removed from the fabric following the shape of the colour to be worked, and a stencil is thus formed.
1948 H. Missingham Student's Guide Commerc. Art ii. 137 (heading) Silk screen or Selectasine process.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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