filmsetadj.
/ˈfɪlmsɛt/, U.S. /ˈfɪlmˌsɛt/ Printing.
Produced by or relating to filmsetting (filmsetting n. 3).
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [adjective] > photocomposing > photocomposed
photocomposed1929
filmset1959
phototypeset1973
1959 Penrose Ann. p. xviii It is to be hoped that examples of filmset books..will be seen in the National Book League's exhibitions of book design.
1966 Print: Handbk. for Entrants to Printing Industry ii. 18 Type is still largely the basis of non-pictorial printing, whether the job be done from the type itself..or from a filmset or ‘cold-type’ basis.
2003 C. Frost Designing for Newspapers & Mag. (2005) iv. 28 The Harris-Intertype Fotosetter was used to produce the first fully filmset book.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
filmsetv.
/ˈfɪlmsɛt/, U.S. /ˈfɪlmˌsɛt/ Printing. Now chiefly historical.
transitive. To produce by filmsetting; to compose (material for printing) by this process.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > compose [verb (transitive)] > photocompose
photoset1957
filmset1958
photocompose1969
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Apr. 209/3 In 1954 an Italian novel was filmset in Europe, on the Westover Rotofoto. In the United States two..books were filmset on the Intertype Fotosetter before the end of 1951.
1981 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 129 129/1 A special word of praise must go to Servis Film Setting, who filmset the books in ‘Monophoto’ Bembo.
2006 R. Hollis Swiss Graphic Design iii. 201/2 The timetable is filmset in a combination of extra bold, normal condensed, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1959v.1958