[f. ZINCO- + -GRAPHY.] The art or process of engraving or etching designs on zinc, or of printing from such designs. Hence Zincograph sb., a design or impression produced by zincography; Zincograph v. trans., to engrave or print by zincography; Zincographer, one who practises zincography, an engraver on zinc; Zincographic a., pertaining to or produced by zincography.
1834. New Monthly Mag., XLII. 523. The art of zincography has several advantages over that of lithography.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 1334. Zinc is extensively employed for making … plates for the zincographer.
1850. Ansted, Elem. Geol., Min., etc. § 469. [Zinc] is also engraved on (instead of stone) for zincographic printing.
1865. Athenæum, 18 Feb., 239/2. An ancient map zincographed.
1870. Eng. Mech., 14 Jan., 429/3. The … zincographic plate is brought under the roller.
1888. Edin. Rev., Jan., 231. Reproduced in ‘zincograph’ by the aid of photography.
1890. Munim. Royal Burgh Irvine, I. Introd. p. xxxii. Zincographs of these stones.
