The preparation of manuscript for printing by the projection of images of type characters on photographic film, which is then used to make printing plates. Also called photocomposition.
Typesetting using machines that superseded the old system of casting type from hot metal. Instead they create images of characters on photographic paper or film, which is then used for platemaking. The fastest can set 20,000 or more characters per second.
This meant lead type, "cold type" as it was called, and the first issues I worked on were hand typeset by those veterans of the publishing industry who were soon to be put out of work by phototypesetting technology.
In those days, NCR was produced by "phototypesetting." The typesetting machines used a photographic process (film paper exposed to light and then processed through a chemical bath) to generate long columns of type on scrolls of paper.
The ratings reflect Tp's strong market position in the printing business, steady revenues, established market position in the phototypesetting business, and above-average operating efficiency.
From a four-page black and white broadsheet created on linotype machines which cast type in full lines using hot lead by an army of printers, to the modern phototypesetting process printing full colour papers - from typewriters to computers, from horse-drawn carts to vans delivering the papers which can also be 'wired' out to all corners of the globe.
Beginning in the 1960s, hot type began to give way to cold type, which is technically neither cold nor type, but rather phototypesetting. Machines generate text printed on photographic paper.
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