WOODBURYTYPE

Etymology

Noun

Woodburytype (countable and uncountable, plural Woodburytypes)

(uncountable) A photomechanical printing process in which a relief pattern in gelatin is hardened and pressed against a metal plate, producing an intaglio.

(countable) A print of this kind.

Source: Wiktionary

Wood"bur*y-type`, n. Etym: [After the name of the inventor, W. Woodbury.]

1. A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.

2. A print from such a plate.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition