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Collotype

noun

A photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors. Synonyms: collotype printing, photogelatin process.

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"Collotype" Quotes from Famous Books

... Autotype, Photogravure, Collotype, and other processes strike us as hardly falling within the category here contemplated, although that they are material accessions to our resources is undoubted. They are the fruit of a combination between nature and mechanical science; their fidelity for portraiture and technical ...

— The Book-Collector • William Carew Hazlitt

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Words linked to "Collotype" : planographic printing, planography, hectograph, heliotype