Although
phototypesetting had been in development since the late nineteenth century, the first machine on the market appeared to be a bizarre modification of the hot-metal Linotype.
It operates in two business segments: printing and
phototypesetting. The company prints books and magazines on contract basis for both the domestic and export markets, and is the only printer for all publications of group's flagship company Living Media India Ltd (LMIL).
Ever seeking better quality, though, Stryker immediately began lobbying for a move to a bigger press, and upgraded his own equipment from the composer to a fancy
phototypesetting machine.
Founded in 1889 as a school for book printers with affiliations to type-setting and bookbinding, the establishment saw major changes with the switch from hot metal to
phototypesetting. In September 2003 it embraced flexography at the request of French printing companies, who acknowledge the technique as the fastest growing in the print world.
Besides saving time and money, folks using the process no longer have to contend with the chemicals that outputting negatives (and also
phototypesetting) required.
Here the authors cover the progression of typography from hand composition through metal typecasting (Linotype and Monotype machines, for example) and on to digital
phototypesetting. This chapter includes explanations of the processes used by the various types of machines, up to and including computer hardware and software.
Offset and
phototypesetting, in contrast, did little or nothing to change newspapers' fundamental business model.
"The front offices were carpeted.") And, in 1967, they began the revolutionary process of going from "hot type" to "cold type," from using Linotype machines that cast hot-metal slugs to
phototypesetting machines that composed type on film or photosensitized paper.
In
phototypesetting, a photographic process replaces the function of the hot metal, and final product is a film or photographic paper print of the type rather than a metal slug (1959 edition, pp.
By the mid-1950s, five other
phototypesetting machines were vying for market share.
He's set type for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Pittsburgh Press in his day, worked through the transition to
phototypesetting and on to computers.
Since Lincoln's speech, patents seem to have encouraged many inventions which engender the "generation and flow of information": the telephone (Bell), phonograph (Edison), movie camera (Edison), Xerography (Carlson), radio (Armstrong and Marconi),
Phototypesetting (Scheffer), and TV (Philo T.