A bromide is a comment which is intended to calm someone down when they are angry, but which has been expressed so often that it has become boring and meaningless. The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment. = platitude
A common term for a bromide salt used to supply bromide ions to the water so they may be oxidized or changed into hypobromous acid, the killing form of bromine Used as a disinfectant
{i} compound of bromine that was formerly used as a sedative (Chemistry); trite and uncreative remark or hackneyed notion; cliché; ordinary person; boring person (Slang)
Bromide's are created using film negatives or positives and result in high resolution, positive black and white image on permanent photographic paper Logos and logotype are commonly converted into bromides for artwork and scanning purposes Also known as a PMT (acronym for photomechanical transfer) C CAMERA-READY COPY Black and white artwork which is meant to be processed by shooting it on a process camera, converted to negatives and used to make printing plates On a direct-to-plate system, the black and white artwork would be converted directly from the art to the printing plate
A contraction of photo bromide An accepted part of the language of advertising Means black and white photoprint, usually of type, logo or packs, but loosely covers any black and white photograph See Repro Bromide
one of the finished artwork options requested by the newspaper Most graphic designers can organise a bromide on your behalf if you supply a disk with a compatible file