typesetting by exposing type characters onto photographic film from which printing plates are made
filmsetting in American English
(ˈfɪlmˌsetɪŋ)
noun
Printing
photocomposition
Word origin
[1950–55; film + set + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Common Market, International Gothic, action painting, allograph, wiretap-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”