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
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
Linotype machine
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The Linotype machine is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies. It was a hot metal typesetting syste
Phototypesetting
…which was not needed by the offset printing process. This cold-type technology could also be used in office environments where hot-metal machines (the Linotype, Intertype or Monotype) could not. The use of phototypesetting grew rapidly in the 1960s when software was developed to convert marked-up copy, usually…
Linotype machines, Anthony Hordern and Sons department store, c. 1935, by A. E. Foster
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Paper tape controlled Linotype Model 5cS, manufactured in Germany (on display at Deutsches Museum, Munich)
Matrix transposition