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photocomposition

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photocomposition

Laying out a printed page using electrophotographic machines, such as imagesetters and laser printers. See page makeup and pagination.


photocomposition [‚fōd·ō‚käm·pə′zish·ən]
(computer science)
Composition of type using electrophotographic techniques such as phototypesetters and laser printers.
(graphic arts)
Reproduction of type images by photographic means.


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Database specialists also had to clean up numerous other peculiarities that had not bothered the photocomposition process but could stall or even crash an electronic retrieval system.
New technology in the form of offset printing and photocomposition of type transformed these conditions.
 
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