Within each type, the methods are arranged in very rough chronological order. • Methods of copying handwritten letters •
Manifold stylographic writer, using early
"carbonic paper" •
Letter copying book process • Mechanical processes •
Tracing to make accurate hand-drawn copies •
Pantograph, manual device for making drawn copies without tracing, can also enlarge or reduce •
Printmaking, which includes
engraving and
etching •
Relief printing including
woodcut •
Intaglio (printmaking) or copperplate engraving •
Planographic printing •
Line engraving •
Printing/Applied ink methods •
Letterpress printing (via
printing press) •
Gelatin methods (also
indirect method) •
Hectograph •
Collography,
autocopyist • Chromograph, Copygraph,
Polygraph •
Flexography •
Spirit duplicator (also
Rexograph,
Ditto machine,
Banda machine, or
Roneo) •
Lithographic processes •
Transfer lithography •
Anastatic lithography •
Autographic process •
Offset lithography •
Photolithography •
Stencil-based copying methods •
Papyrography •
Electric pen, invented by
Thomas Edison •
Trypograph (also
file plate process) •
Cyclostyle,
Neostyle •
Stencil-based machines •
Mimeograph (also
Roneo,
Gestetner) •
Digital Duplicators (also called CopyPrinters, e.g., Riso and
Gestetner) •
Typewriter-based copying methods •
Carbon paper •
Blueprint typewriter ribbon •
Carbonless copy paper •
Photographic processes: •
Reflex copying process (also
reflectography,
reflexion copying) • Breyertype, Playertype, Manul Process, Typon Process, Dexigraph, Linagraph •
Daguerreotype •
Salt print •
Calotype (the first photo process to use a negative, from which multiple prints could be made) •
Cyanotype •
Photostat machine •
Rectigraph •
Airgraph (also
V-mail) •
Kodagraph autopositive paper •
Kodagraph repro-negative paper •
Diffusion transfer • Verifax, Copyproof •
Photomechanical transfer (also
PMT') •
Duostat,
duoprint •
Retroflex (printing process) •
Dual spectrum process •
LightJet •
Ozalid •
Chemical processes •
Aniline process •
Cyanotype (used for
blueprints) •
Diazotype (also
whiteprint,
ammonia print, or
gas print) • Heat-sensitivity methods •
Thermofax (also
thermography) •
Eichner drycopy process •
Adherography • Electrostatic methods •
Electrofax •
Xerography,
Photocopying • Ultraviolet-sensitivity methods •
APT process, for transferring drawings to animation
cels •
Image scanning and
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