phototype

American  

[foh-tuh-tahyp] / ˈfoʊ təˌtaɪp /

noun

Printing.

1. a plate with a relief printing surface produced by photography.

2. any process for making such a plate.

3. a print made from it.

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phototype British  

/ ˌfəʊtəʊˈtɪpɪk, ˈfəʊtəʊˌtaɪp /

noun

1. 1. a printing plate produced by photography

   2. a print produced from such a plate

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verb

1. (tr) to reproduce (an illustration) using a phototype

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• phototypically
  adverb
• phototypic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of phototype

First recorded in 1855–60; photo- + -type

Example Sentences

The publishers, who are gaining a world-wide reputation for their photo process reproductions, have added to this book a series of fine phototype plates.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

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

The second volume contains two phototype facsimiles of pages of the Laurentian and Marcian MSS., and the third volume three similar specimens of the Codex Vaticanus.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Dio, Cassius

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

With 16 full-page phototype reproductions of water-color drawings, and text by F. Hopkinson Smith, profusely illustrated with pen-and ink sketches.

From The Other Fellow by Smith, Francis Hopkinson