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Term:	Wet Gate
Subcategory:	Technical
Definition:	A type of contact printing; the print is created on a printing device that involves film surrounded by a liquid that for temporarily fills-in scratches that may exist on the base. This prevents the scratches from bouncing any light and the scratches from being visible on the print. Usually answer prints are created with a wet gate. Wet gate printing can be more expensive than other kinds of printing.

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