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

• phototypic adjective
• phototypically adverb

Etymology

Origin of phototype

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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