papyrograph, n.
(pəˈpaɪərəgrɑːf, -æ-)
[f. Gr. πάπῡρ-ος papyrus (see paper) + -γραϕος -graph.]
Name of an apparatus patented (1874) by E. Zuccato for copying documents by chemical agents acting through a porous paper-stencil.
(In quot. 1878 erroneously put for photo-papyrography.)
| [1876 Papier-Zeitung 188 (title) Zuccato's Papyrograph.] 1877 Echo 22 Oct. 4/1 Besides the old-fashioned carbon paper..we have the papyrograph, the auto-polygraph, the autographic, and various other systems of so-called printing. 1878 Abney Photogr. (1881) 181 This method has been named by Sir H. James as the papyrograph. It must not be mistaken for another process, used for copying letters or circulars, and known by the same name. 1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts Ser. ii. 179/2 In the early days of papyrograph printing, a pad, saturated with persulphate of iron, was placed at the back of the stencil. |
Hence paˈpyrograph v. trans., to copy with a papyrograph; papyroˈgraphic a., pertaining to or produced by a papyrograph or papyrography.
| 1848 H. E. Strickland in Jardine's Contrib. Ornith. 20 If [a person] adopts the Papyrographic process, he has merely to draw on paper with lithographic chalk instead of a lead pencil, and to send his design..to an anastatic printer, who will speedily strike off the requisite number of impressions. 1874 Specif. Zuccato's Patent No. 1078, I shall..refer to the paper so prepared..as papyrographic paper. a 1890 W. R. Ware Wood-working Tools (Cent. Dict.), The first draft of these lessons was printed or papyrographed. |