photostat

Etymology

noun

1. (dated) A photocopy, especially one made by a Photostat machine.
2. (Malaysia, Philippines) A photocopy made using a photocopier.
3. Positive (black on white) or negative (white on black) reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which uses photographic paper instead of a transparent negative, and uses a prism to render the paper negative readable instead of reversed.

verb

1. (transitive) To make such a photocopy of.
   […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records. 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself