The difference between Blueprint and Cyanotype

When used as nouns, blueprint means a type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies, whereas cyanotype means an early photographic process employing paper sensitized with a cyanide.


Blueprint is also verb with the meaning: to make a blueprint for.

check bellow for the other definitions of Blueprint and Cyanotype

  1. Blueprint as a noun:

    A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

  2. Blueprint as a noun:

    A print produced with this process.

  3. Blueprint as a noun (architecture, engineering, by extension):

    A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

  4. Blueprint as a noun (informal, by extension):

    Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

  1. Blueprint as a verb:

    To make a blueprint for.

    Examples:

    "The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off."

  2. Blueprint as a verb:

    To make a detailed operational plan for.

    Examples:

    "They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation."

  1. Cyanotype as a noun (uncountable):

    An early photographic process employing paper sensitized with a cyanide.

  2. Cyanotype as a noun (countable):

    A photographic print produced by means of this process.