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facsimile (defs 1, 2).
Photography.

a process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment.
a print made by this process.

Historical Examples

Some are easily accessible in Gerli, Chamberlaine, and the autotype reproductions.
Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 John Addington Symonds

Some are in brown, some in blue, reproduced by the autotype Company.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler Elizabeth Robins Pennell

The autotype Company, of London, manufacture a special “transparency” tissue.
Photogravure Henry R. Blaney

Autogravure, aw-to-grav′ūr, n. a process of photo-engraving akin to autotype.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various

A certain amount of control can be kept over an autotype picture.
Photogravure Henry R. Blaney

Two pages have been reproduced by the autotype process for the Chaucer Society; viz.
Chaucer’s Works, Volume 2 (of 7) Geoffrey Chaucer

You may contemplate the entire gallery and succession in numismatic books, with autotype reproductions of these caricatures.
The Confessions of a Collector William Carew Hazlitt

autotype: any specimen identified by the describer as an illustration of his species and compared with the type or co-type.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

This discovery led to the invention of the autotype, Woodburytype, Collotype, and other methods of photo-mechanical printing.
The Evolution of Photography John Werge

He also discovered the direct method of printing by the autotype process.
Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster

noun
a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment
an exact copy of a manuscript, etc; facsimile