line copy

noun

, Printing.

1. a document, drawing, or the like, consisting of two tones, as black and white, without intermediate gradations. Compare halftone ( def 1 ).

Example Sentences

But so many women were buying and wearing boys' sizes that two years later Bass launched a feminine version that was a line for line copy of the original.

From New York Times

In MSS., unlike printed books, the first words of the second leaf will be different in any two copies, say, of the Bible; the scribes did not make a page for page or line for line copy of their archetype—in fact, they may probably have avoided doing so purposely.

From Project Gutenberg