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Landscape engraved from a photograph by the Meisenbach Improved Process of Photo-Engraving. Unknown

Georg Meisenbach’s “Autotypie" was a single line screen crossed after half the exposure in the copy camera, to create a cross line dot Halftone, in 1882. The Meisenbach system became the standard halftone system throughout Europe. His partner Joseph Ritter von Schmaedel, in 1884, succeeded in ruling through a black coating on a glass plate, using a specially made ruling machine, producing a clean screen for halftone. Once the perfected Levy screens became available after 1893, Meisenbach, as well as everyone else, used them.

References

Hanson, David Checklist of photomechanical processes and printing 1825-1910, 2017 p. 90