Heliotypy

[hi:lɪə'taɪpɪ]

Definition

(n.) A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

Typist: Millie

Definition

n. a photo-mechanical process in which the gelatine relief is itself used to print from in some form of printing-press instead of being covered with tinfoil as in the stannotype process.—n. Hē′liotype a photograph.—v.t. to produce a heliotype picture of.—v.i. to practise heliotypy.—adj. Heliotyp′ic.

Checker: Maisie