phototypesetting
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of phototypesetting
First recorded in 1930–35; photo- + typesetting
Example Sentences
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"Graphic design has always developed in step with technological change - from letterpress to phototypesetting to desktop publishing and now Gen AI," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
It wasn’t until the spread of phototypesetting in the 1960s that Choc could be used efficiently for large-scale applications.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2018
Mr. Zapf began designing typefaces for phototypesetting, the first computer-aided form of typesetting.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2015
My time with Apple starts in 1985, when a farsighted high-school journalism teacher switched the weekly newspaper from phototypesetting and paste-up to PageMaker 1.0 and a LaserWriter.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2011
So he instructed the engineers at his Compugraphic Corp. to develop a small, stripped-down phototypesetting machine that he could sell to small dailies and weeklies for no more than $10,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
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