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Photostat
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photostat (fō`təstăt'), reproduction of any printed or simple black-and-white material, such as drawings or manuscripts, made by the Photostat, a photographic camera. While slower and more expensive than xerography xerography , also called electrophotography, method of dry photocopying in which the image is transferred by using the attractive forces of electric charges. A beam of light, usually from a laser, is made to strike the original material, e.g.
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, the process is still used where a high degree of resolution is desired, as in publishing.
Photostat 

a device used to make photographic copies of two-dimensional originals—blueprints, drawings, and similar documents; it consists of a camera, lighting fixtures, and attachments for holding the original. A Photostat is capable of producing enlarged, reduced, or identical copies on roll photographic paper (ordinary or reversal). Photostats are usually produced in unit with devices for the automatic chemical processing of the photocopies.



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He then traces through this history the early maps of Australia showing Tasmania joined to the mainland, the extract of the journal of the Lady Nelson, a photostatic reproduction of the first day's orders at the settlement at Sullivan's Cove (carefully explaining that the originals were housed at the Public Record Office in London) to the first permanent settlements by Henty and Batman.
Quick work for people who never had a chance to examine the originals and had to base their analyses solely on televised glimpses of photostatic copies.
His score was just one shot off grabbing a share of the Photostatic Cup, which went to Wales Under-18 squad member and the Vale of Glamorgan's recently crowned Augusta Putter champion Luke Thomas, of Pontypridd.
 
 
 
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