▪ I. autotype
(ˈɔːtətaɪp)
[f. Gr. αὐτο- (see auto-1) self + τύπος type, impress, print, f. τυπ- to strike, after prototype, etc.]
1. A ‘type’ of the thing itself, a true impress of the original; a reproduction in facsimile.
| 1853 Kingsley Misc. I. 299 The utterance must be..the outward and visible autotype, of the spirit which animates it. 1880 Swinburne Stud. Shaks. iii. 202 The type of Angelo..an autotype of the huge national vice of England. |
2. A process of permanent photographic printing, which reproduces photographs or works of art in monochrome; a facsimile produced by this process. Also attrib. or as adj.
| 1869 Pall Mall G. Supp. 20 Dec. 1 It is illustrated with autotype and other photographs after engravings. 1878 Prospectus of the ‘Autotype Company’, The public need no longer be content with fading photographs; ask for ‘Autotypes’ or ‘Chromotypes.’ 1881 Athenæum 16 Apr. 521/2 These days of autotype and heliogravure. |
▪ II. ˈautotype, v.
[f. prec. n.]
To reproduce by autotype process.
| 1883 Philadelphia Even. Tel. No. 1306 To autotype certain manuscripts and documents. 1884 Athenæum 4 Oct. 434/1 A portrait of Jane Austen..autotyped for this work. |