The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carbon process \Car"bon process\ (Photog.) A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called
carbon paper or
carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer.
Wiktionary
n. the process of making carbon prints
WordNet
n. a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment
Usage examples of "carbon process".
Owing to some highly refined catalytic carbon process they didn't look as though they were going to bum out.