Contact print
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For the photolithography technique, see contact lithography.
A contact print is a photographic image produced from film; sometimes from a film negative, and sometimes from a film positive or paper negative. In a darkroom an exposed and developed piece of film or photographic paper is placed emulsion side down, in contact with a piece of photographic paper, light is briefly shone through the negative or paper and then the paper is developed to reveal the final print.
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The defining characteristic of a contact print is that the resulting print is the same size as the original, rather than having been projected through an enlarger.