n.a
type of stencil produced electronically with a
special machine. A stencil is a
thin sheet of material in which letters or designs are
cut so that ink applied to the
sheet will reproduce the pattern on the surface beneath (such as on a
clean piece of paper). Stencils are made in various
mechanical ways, as by using a typewriter that cuts the stencil as one types out the letters. An electronic stencil is one which has been made with a
machine that electronically scans the original and then duplicates this on the stencil, using minute
sparks to
burn holes through the stencil material to
form the
image to be reproduced.
Electronic stencils provide high-
quality images and are able to
produce many thousands of copies.