PhotoSetter

Japanese: Fotosetter
PhotoSetter

...Drawbacks of phototypesetting include the fact that the quality of the finished print is more uneven than with letterpress, and that corrections and additions during proofreading are time-consuming. Foreign phototypesetters have been invented for quite some time, but they were first put to practical use after World War II with the development of the American Fotosetter. This applies the mechanism of the automatic linotype typesetting machine to mechanically collect a line of single matrices, each of which has a transparent negative character, and then automatically transfers the characters of each matrices onto film after estimating their total length. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Fotosetter" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…欠点としては,写真植字は活版に比べ出来上がりの印字品質にむらが出やすい,校正の際の訂正・追加に手間がかかるなどの点がある。 外国の写真植字機は,かなり古くからいろいろの考案があったが,アメリカのフォトセッターFotosetterの開発によって第2次大戦後はじめて実用化された。これは自動鋳植機ライノタイプの機構を応用して,1字ずつの透明ネガティブ文字をもつ単母型を1行分機械的に集め,その全長を仮定したのち,自動的に1個ずつの母型の文字をフィルムに写していく。…

※「Fotosetter」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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