Also chromatype. Photogr. [f. CHROMO- 1 + τύπος type.] A process for obtaining photographs by means of paper sensitized by a salt of chromium; a picture produced by this process. Also attrib.
1843. R. Hunt (at Meeting of Brit. Assoc.), in Year Bk. of Facts (1845), 234. The chromatype process. Ibid. (1853), Man. Photogr., 72. Under the general term of the Chromatype, I would propose to include all those processes which involve the use of any of the salts of chromium.
1854. J. Scoffern, in Orr’s Circ. Sc., Chem., 85. Other processes … described under the names of … Chromotype, Chrysotype, Cyanotype.
Chromotypography, Chromotypy, printing in colors.
1857. Repts. of Juries, Gt. Exhib., 403. Chromotypy, or printing in colours. Ibid., 688. M. G. Silbermann, of Strasburg, for his Chromo-typography.
