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photocomposition Printing.|ˌfəʊtəʊkɒmpəˈzɪʃən|
[f. photo- 2 + composition.]
= photocomposing vbl. n. Also attrib.
1929N.Y. Times 30 Jan. 11/1 (heading) Publisher..tells of a photo-composition machine that will do away with metal composition. 1949H. O. Smith Rotophoto Process 5 With the commercial advent of mechanical photocomposition the future will undoubtedly see more print changing over to photographic methods of reproduction. 1953[see photocomposing vbl. n. 2]. 1957E. Linklater Private Angelo 238 (colophon) Of this book, first published by Jonathan Cape in 1946, two thousand copies were printed at Christmas 1957 for Sir Allen Lane and Richard Lane... The book was composed entirely without metal type: it is the first to have been produced in Great Britain by means of photocomposition. 1967D. G. Hays Introd. Computational Linguistics iv. 67 Early photocomposition devices..used photosensitive stock and stored negative images of characters. 1968A. Bluhm Photosetting i. 3 These two terms [sc. photosetting and filmsetting], and also photocomposition and phototypesetting, are all currently used to mean exactly the same thing, namely the composition of letters and symbols by photographic exposure from a set of transparent master characters for subsequent reproduction by any printing process. 1975Times 4 Sept. 1/1 The printing unions were told..that labour-saving photocomposition techniques would be introduced. 1977Times 14 May 1/2 The plans also involve..Fleet Street production by the new technology of photocomposition. |