noun
definition
A plate, made by electroplating a mold, such as used in letterpress printing
verb
definition
To make such a plate
Examples of electrotype in a Sentence
Rotary machines, printing from an endless web of paper from curved stereotype or electrotype plates, principally used XXII.
Single proofs of type, stereotype, electrotype or blocks of any description can often be struck off without making-ready with fairly good results, but if precision of " colour " (that is, inking) and uniformity of impression throughout a volume are desired, it is necessary to put the forme, whether type or blocks or both, into a proper condition before starting the printing of an edition, whatever its number.
Towards the end of his arts course he became a contributor to the Westminster Review (first article "Electrotype and Daguerreotype," September 1840).