Typesetting By Photography In The Works

October 1925

TYPE-SETTING FILM

London — Type-setting by photography is the latest invention heralded as a printing revolution. J.R.C. August and E.K. Hunter, who have devised the system, predict that metal type printing will soon be obsolete. The basis of the invention is a film on which letters and all kinds of type have been photographed by means of a keyboard like that of a typewriter. Characters from a "master film" are projected in rapid sequence on to a sensitized base and photographed by fractional exposures.