ˈfilmset, v. Printing.
[f. film n. + set v. 72.]
trans. To compose (matter) by projecting images on to photographic film in a photocomposing machine. So ˈfilmset ppl. a., ˈfilmsetting ppl. a. and vbl. n.
| 1954 Printing Rev. XVIII. lxv. 41/2 The Keybar frames..can be used without alteration for film-setting on a ‘Monophoto’. 1956 Print in Britain IV. 234/1 Protype provides the..printer with the opportunity of installing a simple film-setting system. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Apr. 209/3 In 1954 an Italian novel was filmset in Europe, on the Westover Rotofoto. In the United States, two (not one) books were filmset on the Intertype Fotosetter before the end of 1951. 1959 Penrose Ann. p. xviii, It is to be hoped that examples of filmset books..will be seen in the National Book League's exhibitions of book design. 1963 D. Bland in O. Simon Introd. Typogr. (ed. 2) p. v, The increasing use of slug-setting and film⁓setting for bookwork. 1963 Printing & Mind of Man 113 This [sc. the Rotophoto], the first British filmsetting machine to be placed on the market, was the invention of..George Westover, and was first shown in 1948. 1966 Print (Wynkyn de Worde Soc.) ii. 18 Type is still largely the basis of non-pictorial printing, whether the job be done from the type itself..or from a filmset or ‘cold-type’ basis. |