pantatypen.
/ˈpantətʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈpæn(t)əˌtaɪp/ Printing. rare. Now historical.
A method of printing designed to allow impressions of engravings to be made in the same way as impressions of type, using metal relief blocks instead of woodcuts.Invented by Charles, third Earl Stanhope (1753–1816) in 1803, this system was intended to enable large numbers of impressions to be made without any loss of quality; it was, however, never developed for practical use.
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pantatype1803
phonotypy1844
Braille1853
1803 A. Wilson Let. to Authors Aug. in M. Burrows Collectanea (1896) III. 377 Earl Stanhope has lately purchased the two important Secrets of Pantatype Printing and of Stereotype Printing, in order to give them to the Public. Pantatype Printing means universal type printing; being applicable to all subjects.
1896 H. Hart Stanhope & Oxf. Press in M. Burrows Collectanea (1896) III. 411 What then was Pantatype? My own opinion is that..Ld. Stanhope thought he saw his way to a wide-spread adoption of what we now call ‘process’ work... Hard metal relief blocks [were to be used] in place of wood-cuts; intaglio engravings were to be copied and turned into relief blocks by the processes of Gengembre and others.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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