cold typesetting system

Japanese: cold type-setting system(英語表記)coldtypesettingsystem
cold typesetting system

…In the printing industry, it was formerly an abbreviation for cold typesetting system, referring to typesetting and plate-making systems other than lead plate printing (which involves casting lead type and casting lead plates on paper molds), such as phototypesetting, but more recently it has come to mean computer(ized) typesetting system, referring to typesetting systems using computerized phototypesetters. In newspaper production, around 1975, a consistent system using computers began to be used to carry out the entire process from printing and typesetting to layout and plate-making, and many newspaper companies have switched from traditional lead plate printing. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "cold type-setting system" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…印刷工業で,従来はcold type‐setting systemの略称として,鉛版印刷(鉛活字の鋳造,および紙型による鉛版の鋳造をともなう)以外の組版・製版システムのことをいい,写真植字法などをさしたが,最近ではcomputer(ized) type‐setting systemの略称として,コンピューター利用の写真植字機(電算写植機)による組版システムをいうことが多い。また新聞の制作において,1975年ごろから,印字・組版からレイアウト,製版に至る工程をコンピューターを利用して一貫したシステムで行うことが始められ,多くの新聞社が従来の鉛版印刷から切り替えてきている。…

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