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photocomposing, vbl. n. Printing.|ˌfəʊtəʊkəmˈpəʊzɪŋ|
Also with hyphen.
[f. photo- 2 + composing vbl. n.]
1. The setting of text by the projection of images of letters or symbols on to photographic film, which is then used in the preparation of the printing surface; filmsetting. Freq. attrib.
1929N.Y. Times 30 Jan. 11/1 There is another great revolution coming in the printing industry... That is the use of photo-composing instead of metal composing. Instead of producing a column of metal type, we will have a machine which produces a strip of film. 1929Times 29 Oct. (Printing Suppl.) p. xii/7 The Typary machine..though not strictly a photo-composing machine, was directly inspired by the desire to abolish typesetting. 1948Sci. News Let. 4 Dec. 362/1 Several photocomposing machines are in experimental use. 1955Times 5 July 6/5 This is the first time that..photo-composing machines have been on view at Olympia as working exhibits. 1961Spectator 14 Apr. 509/3 Technical advances, particularly in photo-composing and the printing of matter from film, rather than metal, are reaching a stage where their place in the British industry must be decided. 1973S. Jennett Making of Bks. (ed. 5) v. 83 All three hot-metal composing-machine companies in Britain, and others abroad, have introduced photo-composing machines.
2. The manufacture of printing plates directly from photographic images for the production of multiple copies of illustrations, designs, etc.
1929W. C. Huebner in Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engin. L. pi. 21/2 Photo composing or photo-mechanical imposition is..the art of making printing plates wherein original designs are photographed directly on the press plate. 1953Composition Manual (Printing Industry of Amer.) viii. 296/1 It [sc. photo-typesetting] should not be confused with ‘photo-composing’ because the latter has been definitely applied, for a number of years, to machines that are used for the multiple-printing of photographic images in offset lithography and other process work... The word ‘photo-composition’, sometimes used in current writing to denote photo-typesetting, has likewise been a source of some confusion.
So ˌphotocomˈpose v. trans., -comˈposed ppl. a.; ˌphotocomˈposer, a machine for carrying out photocomposition.
1929W. C. Huebner in Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engin. L. pi. 21/2 The results attained by photo-composed plates indicate the wide range of work that can be done economically. Ibid. 22/1 All sizes of work..are photo-composed successfully. Ibid. 23/1 The photocomposer can do it [sc. produce several copies of a plate] better. 1948Sci. News Let. 4 Dec. 362/1 One company known for typesetting machinery has its photocomposer in day-by-day use. 1965Economist 22 May (Press Ahead Suppl.) p. xvi/2 Two photocomposers were installed. 1969Physics Bull. Jan. 24/1 The Current Papers will be photocomposed for printing under computer control. 1970A. Cameron et al. Computers & Old Eng. Concordances 7 Photo-composed pages can look very handsome indeed. 1972Computers & Humanities VI. 153 Computerized photocomposers may be divided into three stages of development or three generations of machine in use today. |
