indotint

plural indotints

1. uncountableAn early photographic process used in the 19th century for reproducing images, particularly maps and plans.

   This is true of the Woodburytype, Albertype, Artotype, Indotint, Heliotint, Photo-gravure and Aquatint processes.

   1890 November, C. F. CHANDLER Ph.D. LL.D., Photo-Mechanical Processes, NEW YORK CAMERA CLUB, page 4

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   E. & H.T. ANTHONY & Co. issue a large photo-engraving printed in what is called “Indotint” of the “Garfield Family,” comprising parents, children, and grandmother.

   1882 April 8, The Publishers’ Weekly., number 534, page 386

   By 1875 it had been acquired by the Forbes Lithograph Company in the same town, which retained the trademark Albertype until the turn of the century, although closely related printing techniques were also practiced under different trade names (such as artotype, autotype, heliotype, indotint, or phototype) by other companies.

   2002, Klaus Hentschel, Mapping the Spectrum: Techniques of Visual Representation in Research and Teaching, illustrated, reprint edition, Oxford University Press, pages 158-159

2. countableAn image produced by this process.