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graphotype, n.|ˈgræfətaɪp|
[f. as prec. + type.]
a. A process for producing a design in relief for surface-printing; also, the block or plate so produced.
b. (See quot. 1877.)
1866Chamb. Jrnl. xxviii. 271 Mr. Hitchcock, an American, has invented a process for preparing wood-blocks for the printing of pictures, diagrams, and so forth, to which he gives the name of graphotype. 1866Brande's Dict. Sci. etc. II. 61 Some graphotypes are said to rival in beauty and delicacy the best engravings. 1877Echo 22 Oct. 4/1 Under the term graphotype may be included the several systems of reproducing copies of letters which are rapidly finding their way into commercial circles.
Hence ˈgraphotype v. trans., to print by means of the graphotype; ˈgraphotyping vbl. n. (in quot. attrib.); graphoˈtypic a., of or pertaining to the use of the graphotype.
1866Sat. Rev. 31 Mar. 384 Unlearned readers..will not easily make out why the graphotypic and the typographic arts should be so closely allied in nomenclature and so different in fact. 1866Spectator 29 Dec. 1469 Twenty-one illustrations..graphotyped by the Graphotyping Company. |