phototype
Americannoun
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a plate with a relief printing surface produced by photography.
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any process for making such a plate.
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a print made from it.
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The best of the available substitutes, phototype reproductions of specimen pages, apart from other limitations, must always lack the authority and the impressiveness of the originals.
From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Van Name, Addison
The "straight process," so called, of the phototype printer, reproducing a pen-and-ink line drawing on a zinc plate which could be immediately run through a Hoe process, was perfected.
From Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
What the same eminent scholar gives us now is a reproduction in phototype of "L'Exemplaire."
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
The plates are phototype reproductions from photographs of Patroclus, taken in action by Baldwin Coolidge.
From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault
A phototype and a chromo-phototype, issued by the New Shakspere Society, are the best reproductions for the purposes of study.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
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