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  

/ 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

• phototypic
  adjective
• phototypically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of phototype

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

phototype

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 Theodore Ayrault Dodge

To preserve anatomical accuracy, the finer results of both photography and of the phototype process have had to be sacrificed.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge

What the same eminent scholar gives us now is a reproduction in phototype of "L'Exemplaire."

From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell

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 Cassius Dio

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