autotype Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment
    autotypy.
  2. noun an exact copy or reproduction
    facsimile.

WordNet

Au"to*type noun
Etymology
Auto- + -type: cf. F. autotype.
Definitions
  1. A facsimile.
  2. A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

Webster 1913