autotype

Autotype can also refer to automatically determining a peripheral's configuration or a program's variables.

Autotype may also refer to halftone printing.

Such methods last until about 1960 using the expensive and extremely complex tri-color carbro Autotype process.

The term autotype was coined in the late 19th century and referred to a process for making photographic prints using a carbon process.

Autotype is defined as a "true representation of the original" (see O.E.D).

Mr Colin Walker, a senior manager at Autotype International, said he would be reporting back on possible business links after the summer visit.

MacDermid Autotype at Wantage makes precision coated films.

Autotype is a function in some computer applications or programs, typically those containing forms, which fills in a field once you have typed in the first few letters.

He also wrote the introduction to the Earl of Crawford's Autotype Facsimiles of Three Mappemondes.

Macdermid Autotype, the last manufacturer of the gelatin pigment paper (tissue) needed to make traditional copper plate photogravure, announced the end of their production in August 2009.

Hull also drew some of the illustrations to J. P. Earwaker's "East Cheshire, Past and Present" (1877-81), and his drawings of the mill at Ambleside and Wythburn Church were reproduced in autotype.

Many autotype prints were produced and the process was popular well into the 20th century, particularly since autotype prints are very long lasting (it is said that an autotype could last up to 500 years without fading).