photostats
Old copying method
Photostats are copies made by an early photographic duplicating process, or the machines that produced them.
Before modern photocopiers, a photostat machine photographed documents directly onto sensitized paper, creating a negative image (white text on black) or a positive copy.
The term now applies loosely to any photocopy: I need photostats of these receipts.
To photostat is to copy by this or similar means.
Duplicate via machine
- duplicatesIdentical reproductions
- facsimilesExact copies of something
- replicasExact copies of originals
- carbon copiesIdentical reproductions of documents
mimeograph · duplication · reprints · reproduction · copies · printout · transcripts · blueprints
Photographically reduced documents
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- historical recordsPreserved accounts of the past
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- archivesStored historical documents
conservation · library · acid-free · provenance · digitization · restoration · ephemera · document storage
xerox
Duplicate via machine
- duplicatesIdentical reproductions
- facsimilesExact copies of something
- replicasExact copies of originals
carbon copies · mimeograph · duplication · reprints · reproduction · copies · printout · transcripts · blueprints · duplicator
microfilm
Photographically reduced documents
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- historical recordsPreserved accounts of the past
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
archives · conservation · library · acid-free · provenance · digitization · restoration · ephemera · document storage · filing
- reprographicsblueprints, technical drawings, architectural plans, blueprint paper, plotters
- doublesdouble, doubles, twin, twins, duplicate
photostatsoriginals
Authentic first versions
master copies · primary sources · autographs · manuscripts · holographs
photostatscarbon copies
Identical reproductions of documents
mimeographs · typescripts · digital scans · xeroxes · transcriptions