intaglio

IPA: ɪntˈæɫjoʊ

A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
(printing) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.

Examples of "intaglio" in Sentences

The flash page is intaglio printed if you can believe that.
Though the text was still printed on a flat-bed press, copper engravings required an intaglio press, meaning a separate procedure.
Etching, as well as engraving, falls under the umbrella term intaglio, in which a picture is carved onto a surface and the grooved areas hold the ink.
The intaglio was a dark sard beautifully cut with the head of Minerva, and Mrs. Greyson's artistic instincts were keenly alive to the exquisite delicacy of its workmanship.
21 The Eastern ring is rarely plain; and, its use being that of a signet, it is always in intaglio: the Egyptians invented engraving hieroglyphics on wooden stamps for marking bricks and applied the process to the ring.
Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have borrowed a technique from such "intaglio" printing to create snapshots describing the behavior of immune cell populations at a moment in time.
Most of the countries in the world, the United States among them, print their currency using so-called intaglio presses, in which the design is cut into the printing plate, the ink fills the incisions, and the press comes down with enormous pressure, some 50 tons on every square centimeter of paper.