photocomposingn.
/ˌfəʊtəʊkəmˈpəʊzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdəkəmˈpoʊzɪŋ/ Printing. Now chiefly historical.
= photocomposition n.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun] > composing on a machine > photocomposing
photocomposing1926
photocomposition1929
phototypesetting1931
filmsetting1954
photosetting1958
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [noun] > manufacture of plates for multiple copies
photocomposing1926
1926 Penrose's Ann. 28 76 (heading) The August-Hunter photo composing machine.
1926 Penrose's Ann. 28 78 It so happens that photo-composing was the problem which induced the inventors to devise such novel methods.
1929 N.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.
1929 W. C. Huebner in Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engin. 50 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.
1948 Sci. News Let. 4 Dec. 362/1 Several photocomposing machines are in experimental use.
1973 S. 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.
1998 Business Line (Nexis) 27 Apr. It was here that the first steps in photocomposing, laser image setting and desk top publishing were undertaken.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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