collotype

[ kol-uh-tahyp ]

noun

1. any photomechanical process of printing from a plate coated with gelatin.
2. the plate used for this.
3. a print made from such a plate.

verb (used with object)

, col·lo·typed, col·lo·typ·ing.

1. to produce (a print) by collotype; albertype; artotype; heliotype.

collotype

/ ˌkɒləˈtɪpɪk; ˈkɒləʊˌtaɪp /

noun

1. Also calledphotogelatine process a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
2. a print made using this process

Derived Forms

• collotypic, adjective

Other Words From

• col·lo·typ·ic [kol-, uh, -, tip, -ik], adjective
• col·lo·typ·y [kol, -, uh, -tahy-pee], noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of collotype¹

1880–85; < Greek kóll ( a ) glue + -o- + -type

Word History and Origins

Origin of collotype¹

C19: from Greek kolla glue + type

Example Sentences

In the 19th century, France said, new photographic methods emerged nearly every year: from daguerreotype to collotype, from paper negatives to glass negatives, from sheet film to roll film.

From Washington Post

The landscape photographers of America are included as well, with representative photographs by Carleton Watkins, and Eadweard Muybridge, a photographer of animals in motion, represented by a collotype formerly in the Corcoran Collection.

From Washington Post

The collotype process then became his hope and refuge, but that also was in its infancy, and not practised in England.

From Project Gutenberg

The drawings are mostly scaled for the half, and the measurement, in inches, will be found by dots on the top of the collotypes, and by a marked line on the pattern pages.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a common collotype reproduction of a stodgy night-effect, a full moon in a black-leaded sky with reflections in water to match—price perhaps five shillings.

From Project Gutenberg