A Photographic Discovery.

Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1893, Page 3

A Photographic Discovery.

That distinguished amateur photographer, the Due de Moray, has (says the Standard) communicated to the French War Office a process by which .paper of any kind or thickness can receive a photographic print. Eighty copies can be printed per minute at a trifling expense, and note paper, season tickets, and so forth may thus bear photographic portraits of the owner. General Saussier, the commandant of the garrison at -Paris, is engaged, it is stated, in making experiments with a view to applying the process to tbe " livrets"," or , certificates of service or character, delivered to the soldiers ; and ere long, perhaps, the Due de Moray's system of cheap photographic printing may be adopted in case of the " livrets " which workmen and domestic servants in Fiance are suspected to possess. Of the usefulness of cheap photographic portraits on season tickets and other documents, which may lead to personal identification of the real proprietor, there can be scarcely any doubt ; still it must not be forgptton that the multiplication of very cheap photographic portraits has been long practised in the United States, where photographers, for a very moderate consideration, will supply a client with 100 little effigies of himself, printed on a sheet of paper gummed on the back, the sheet being divisible by means of perforation into squares of the, exact size of postage stamps, so that the tiny portraits can be used at th« possessor's own sweet will.