graphotype

From grapho- +‎ -type.

graphotype (plural graphotypes)

1. (historical) A process for producing a design upon a printing block. Prepared chalk or zinc oxide is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.

graphotype (third-person singular simple present graphotypes, present participle graphotyping, simple past and past participle graphotyped)

1. To produce a design by this process.

• typograph

• “graphotype”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.