autotype

[ aw-tuh-tahyp ]

/ ˈɔ təˌtaɪp /

Photography.

Origin of autotype

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

au·to·typ·ic

[aw-tuh-tip-ik] /ˌɔ təˈtɪp ɪk/, adjective au·to·typ·y

[aw-tuh-tahy-pee] /ˈɔ təˌtaɪ pi/, noun

Some are in brown, some in blue, reproduced by the Autotype Company.

The Life of James McNeill Whistler |Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Our two woodcuts showing the tracery are copied from that work, but the autotype plate is from a photograph by Duschek.

Roumania Past and Present |James Samuelson
The Autotype Company, of London, manufacture a special "transparency" tissue.

Photogravure |Henry R. Blaney
He also discovered the direct method of printing by the autotype process.

Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) |Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster

Some are easily accessible in Gerli, Chamberlaine, and the autotype reproductions.

Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 |John Addington Symonds

autotype

/ (ˈɔːtəˌtaɪp) /

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

an exact copy of a manuscript, etc; facsimile

autotypic (ˌɔːtəˈtɪpɪk), adjective autotypy, noun