autotype

American  

[aw-tuh-tahyp] / ˈɔ təˌtaɪp /

noun

1. facsimile.

2. Photography.

   1. a process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment.

   2. a print made by this process.

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autotype British  

/ ˈɔːtəˌtaɪp, ˌɔːtəˈtɪpɪk /

noun

1. a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment

2. an exact copy of a manuscript, etc; facsimile

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Other Word Forms

• autotypic
  adjective
• autotypy
  noun

Etymology

Origin of autotype

First recorded in 1850–55; auto- ¹ + type

Example Sentences

The fading of ordinary photographic prints is no real objection to keeping a register, because they can now be reproduced at small charge in permanent printers' ink, by the autotype and other processes.

From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Galton, Francis, Sir

The surface of a drawing should be mate for autotype reproduction.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

"I suppose that autotype cost thirty shillings, and this carpet about five pounds?"

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

A certain amount of control can be kept over an autotype picture.

From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.

Mr. Swinburne, too, regrets the miscarriage of justice; the play to him is a tragedy, and should end tragically with the punishment of the "autotype of the huge national vice of England."

From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank