photomechanical

adjective

pho·​to·​me·​chan·​i·​cal ˌfō-tō-mi-ˈka-ni-kəl 

: relating to or involving any of various processes for producing printed matter from a photographically prepared surface

photomechanically

ˌfō-tō-mi-ˈka-ni-k(ə-)lē 

adverb

Examples of photomechanical in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To do this, the research team embedded photomechanical crystals into a polymer, which could then bend and lift when exposed to light, forming a kind of actuator or motor. —Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023

Per the Public Domain Review, the artist combined photomechanical printing and photography techniques to create his painterly floral scenes. —Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020

Your print may indeed be a steel engraving, or perhaps a collotype, which is produced by a photomechanical process. —oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020

The fakes, on the other hand, are typically photomechanical reproductions of the originals. —New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary

First Known Use

1870, in the meaning defined above