The first Photo-Mechanical Printing Plate

• The Niepce process was not practical for camera photography, but found to be useful for printing.

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The Niepce process was not practical as a method of camera photography and it was soon replaced by other, more efficient photochemical process. However, the Niepce process was found to be useful for another imaging process which was rapidly growing in imp