[f. late L. stann-um tin + Gr. τύπος impression, print, TYPE.] A simplified form of the Woodbury process of photomechanical engraving in which a mold obtained from a positive instead of a negative is coated with tinfoil. Also attrib.
1883. T. F. Hardwich’s Photogr. Chem. (ed. 9), 360. The Stannotype … is the invention of Mr. Woodbury.
1891. Woodbury, Encycl. Photogr., 666. The object of the stannotype process was to do away with all this costly machinery [i.e., the hydraulic press of the Woodbury process].
