Autotypography

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Autotypography \Au`to*ty*pog"ra*phy\, n. [Auto- + typography.]
     A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings
     executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate,
     from which the printing is done as from copperplate.
     [1913 Webster]