Graphotype

[ graf-uh-tahyp ]

Trademark.

1. a typewriterlike machine for embossing letters upon thin sheets of metal, as for use in an addressing machine.

Other Words From

• graph·o·typ·ic [graf-, uh, -, tip, -ik], adjective

Example Sentences

Two weeks ago, when a disastrous midnight fire gutted a southern Illinois hospital, the Trib had a Graphotype bulletin in its One-Star Final in a scant 15 minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Twigs for Nests; or, Notes on Nursery Nurture,” illustrations in graphotype by H. K. Browne and others, 1860.

From Project Gutenberg

I am at present on a 353 sporting paper, supported by some high and mighty nobs; but I fear, like everything I have to do with, now a-days, it will collapse, for some of the proprietors of the paper are also shareholders, etc., etc., in the Graphotype Company, so they want to work the two together.

From Project Gutenberg