A technical dictionary of printmaking, André Béguin.
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plate warmer
Plate warmers are used for a variety of purposes. They are used to slightly warm copper plates in order to ink them. They are also used to apply grounds, to heat the dust grain in the aquatint process and to heat inks in the gillotype proces. In the past, plate warmers were heated with embers. Later they were heated with gas or with alcohol burners. At present most plate warmers are heated electrically.
[hot plate].
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