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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- noun A
printing process that generatedcolumns oftype on ascroll ofphotographic paper , using aphototypesetter
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Instead, a new technology called "phototypesetting" was developed.
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Instead, a new technology called "phototypesetting" was developed.
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Instead, a new technology called "phototypesetting" was developed.
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We started in 1985 in the time of phototypesetting.
Tracy Baim: Niche Media Survival in the Age of New Media Tracy Baim 2012
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And this helped me cobble together an early professional career both as a typesetter and a journalist, because I knew how to operate these complicated phototypesetting machines.
Tracy Baim: Niche Media Survival in the Age of New Media Tracy Baim 2012
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While I was in school, the age of phototypesetting machines dawned, including the Mergenthaler and Compugraphic models.
Tracy Baim: Niche Media Survival in the Age of New Media Tracy Baim 2012
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Louis Moyroud, 96, who helped revolutionize the printing process when he co-invented phototypesetting, died Monday at his home in Florida.
The Daily Goodbye 2010
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Mr. Moyroud and Rene Higonnet developed the first phototypesetting machine in the mid-1940s.
The Daily Goodbye 2010
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The introduction of computer controlled phototypesetting, and the other technical advances of the 1970s and 1980s, made the identification of typefaces even more relevant, and a large printer such as the Government Printing Office would automatically itemise the designs and type sizes available, as in their looseleaf Gold Book specimen book of 1984.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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We started in 1985 in the time of phototypesetting.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tracy Baim 2012
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