† porotypen.
Obsolete. rare.
A method of copying a document by placing it over a piece of sensitized paper and exposing it to a gas which cannot permeate the inked parts of the document but passes through the porous, uninked parts and bleaches or discolours the sensitized paper beneath.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 706/2 Porotype, a method of copying engravings. It depends upon the fact that the portion of the face of the print occupied by ink is non-porous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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