A photomechanical printing process that reproduces images by using photographic techniques to create printing plates, or a print made by this process.
From auto- (self) + type (from Greek typos, impression). 19th-century printing term describing a photographic-based printing method that automates image reproduction.
Autotype was revolutionary in the 1880s—it was one of the first mass production printing methods that could reproduce photographs as halftone images, essentially inventing modern newspaper printing.
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