Toner

Description

1) A chemical bath used to change the color of a photographic print.

2) A powdery mixture of a thermoplastic resin and colorant used to produce a photocopy. To produce a copy, electrostatically charged toner particles adhere to an image on the copy plate of opposite charge. The image is rolled onto a charged paper then permanently fused with heat.

3) An organic dyestuff without any inorganic filler or carrier.

Synonyms and Related Terms

2. copier toner

Resources and Citations

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• Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)

• Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993

• ASTM, "Standard Terminology Relating to Paint, Varnish, Lacquer and Related Products", Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Section 6, Paints, Related Coatings and Aromatics, ASTM, D16, 7-Jan, Jul-96

• Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: "photography, technology of." Accessed 8 Feb. 2005.

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000