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The 1950s saw Autotype fi nally abandoning carbon
printing. The company’s main business now centred
around supplying materials to the thriving photogra-
vure companies and also the rapidly growing market of
screen printing. Autotype had entered the latter business
in the 1920s, manufacturing a special pigment paper
for the trade. From1958 to 1963 it also successfully
marketed its own carbon based photo-stencil process.
By 1976 the company had outgrown the Ealing factory
and moved to a new site at Wantage, Oxfordshire. The
company underwent another minor title change and be-
came Autotype International Limited. At the beginning
of the 21st century, Autotype International is a global
company. It has moved into digital printing applications
and now provides materials for touch screens, LCD
displays and control panels.
John Ward
See Also: Carbon Print; Cameron, Julia Margaret;
Photogravure; Emerson, Peter Henry.Further Reading
Brothers, A. Photography: Its History, Processes, Apparatus,
and Materials, London, Charles Griffi n and Company Lim-
ited, 1899.
Burton, W. K. Practical Guide to Photographic and Photome-
chanical Printing, London, Marion and Company, 1887.
Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison, The History of Photography,
London, Thames and Hudson, 1969.
Mitchell, K.J.M. The Rising Sun—The fi rst 100 years of the
Autotype Fine Art Company (unpublished).
Sawyer, J.R. The Autotype Process, London, Autotype Company,
1877 (sixth edition).
Wakeman, Geoffrey, Victorian Book Illustration, Newton Abbot,
David & Charles, 1973.