1911 Trade Marks Jrnl. 24 May 761 Photostat... Photographic cameras for making photographic copies of the pages of books, drawings, applications for life insurance and the like.

1912 Chambers's Jrnl. June 414/2 By means of the photostat a new filing method is possible.

1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 121/1 A ‘Photostat’ copy of a document is one produced by the ‘Photostat’ apparatus.

1990 Country Walking Jan. 16/2 (advt.) If you don't want to cut your copy, then a photostat will do.

1914 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 1 62 The photostatic copies are practically as good, for historical purposes, as the originals.

1991 Lit. & Ling. Computing 6 31/2 Rajna entitled his photostatic edition Geste Francor.

1914 Amer. Machinist 9 Apr. 642/1 A prism is used to ‘turn the corner’, making it more convenient than if the book or other object being ‘photostated’ had to be set up on edge.

1947 Sat. Evening Post 16 Aug. 122/1 Before photostating my application, some eager beaver..helpfully typed the address.

1990 FineScale Modeler Feb. 38 (caption) To convert these drawings to other modeling scales, have them photostated at the following percentages.

1926 Amer. Hist. Rev. 31 836 Part of the important material..has for years been available in the photostated material from the French archives.

1973 R. Hill Ruling Passion iii. iii. 179 He passed out some photostatted sheets.

1994 D. Porter Frommer's Comprehensive Trav. Guide Portugal '94–'95 ix. 175 Against a background of..a primitive tapestry, and photostated engravings, a luncheon, or dinner..is served.

1929 Amer. Anthropologist 31 317 The photostating of out-of-print numbers..seems to be an economical way of handling the occasional demand for an out-of-print number.

2002 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 4 July 15 Look at Xerox, which basically pioneered photostatting and made everyone's life a lot easier.