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What does collotype mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) A dichromate-based photographic process formerly used for large-volume mechanical printing.
  2. (countable) An image produced by this process.
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The collotype plate is then exposed under the negative and washed in cold water until the yellow bichromate no longer comes away.
With thirty-two portraits in collotype and frontispiece in colour.
Printing high quality collotype illustrations for books was a decent size industry at one time.
Four bare-chested pressmen labor in a small room with a huge collotype printing press.
Therefore it's no wonder only a handful of collotype studios are still existing in the world today.
As a general rule photo-micrographs are best reproduced by collotype.

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