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Berthold Type Foundry

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H. Berthold AG was one of the largest and most successful type foundries in the world for most of the modern typographic era, making the transition from foundry type to cold type successfully and only coming to dissolution in the digital type era.

A 1905 advertisement for Berthold in a Swedish printing journal, showcasing its Herold typeface

A Berthold Diatype machine

A Diatronic plate, showing Futura

Phototypesetting

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Phototypesetting is a method of setting type which uses photography to make columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper. It has been made obsolete by the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing which gave rise to digital typesetting.

An Intertype Fotosetter, one of the most popular "first-generation" mass-market phototypesetting machines. The system is heavily based on hot metal typesetting technology, with the metal casting machinery replaced with photographic film, a light system and glass pictures of characters.

100 photosetting units tps 6300 and tpu 6308

Linotype CRTronic 360

A Berthold Diatronic master plate, showing Futura