Sentence examples for layer of ink from inspiring English sources

Finally he applies a layer of ink or watercolor.

In all types of letterpress presses the printing surface must be coated with a uniform layer of ink before receiving the paper.

The most straightforward works like a big inkjet printer – but instead of squirting one layer of ink on a page, it goes on squirting layer after layer of a gluey plastic solution which solidifies until a full, tangible object is printed.

USING A 3D PRINTER is like printing a letter; hit the print button on a computer screen and a digital file is sent to, say, an inkjet printer which deposits a layer of ink on the surface of a piece of paper to create an image in two dimensions.

But those applications are mostly screen-printed, a slow and expensive process used because it leaves a thick layer of ink, much like the ink on an embossed business card.

"It's like the first layer of ink," he tells The Creators Project.

Sometimes Mr. Lee applies so many pen strokes over weeks and months that the layers of ink become encrusted and gritty.

An early success came in 1902, at a printing plant in Brooklyn, New York, where shrinkage of paper due to humidity meant that differently coloured layers of ink could not be properly aligned.

The unique application of laser-induced breakdown spectrometry for identification of contaminants in successive layers of ink and polymer is also demonstrated.

This is already done with visible and near-visible light in what's called multispectral imaging, and has discovered secrets buried beneath layers of ink on century-old manuscripts.

"The clones are printed using layers of ink which harden in the plaster," Choo notes.