cold-type

Japanese: cold-type(英語表記)coldtype
cold-type

...When the printed photosensitive material is developed, black positive characters on a white background are obtained, from which printing plates for letterpress, offset, gravure, etc. are made. In other words, since characters can be printed without making letterpresses, it is also called cold type, meaning that heated cast type is not used. Before the war, this phototypesetter was only used in specialized fields, but after World War II, it came into widespread use due to the destruction of type in war damage, advances in photomechanical processes, and the rise of offset printing.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "cold-type" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…印字を終わった感光材を現像すれば,白地に黒のポジティブ文字が得られるので,これから凸版,オフセット,グラビアなどの印刷版を製版する。すなわち活版を作ることなしに文字印刷ができるので,加熱鋳造活字を使わないという意味でコールドタイプcold‐typeとも呼ばれている。 戦前この写真植字機は,特殊の分野に利用されていたにすぎなかったが,第2次大戦後,活字の戦災による焼失,写真製版法の進歩,オフセットの興隆などによって広く使用されるようになった。…

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