It has long been replaced by photography in its commercial applications and, partly because of the difficulty of learning the technique, is much less common in printmaking, where it has been largely replaced by etching and other techniques.
Dugo je vremena bilo zamijenjeno fotografijom u komercijalnim primjenama te je, djelomice zbog težine učenja tehnike, mnogo manje uobičajeno u tiskarstvu gdje je većinom zamijenjeno jetkanjem i drugim tehnikama.