filmsetting

English

Verb

filmsetting

1. present participle and gerund of filmset

Noun

filmsetting (usually uncountable, plural filmsettings)

1. Photocomposition of type.
   • 1968, Dorothy A. Harrop, Modern book production, page 59:

     There is too, at this point in time, an aesthetic disadvantage to filmsetting in that the range of type faces specially designed for it is still extremely limited.

   • 1979, E. L. Dellow, A First Course in Proof Correcting, page 110:

     However, filmsettings are sometimes made deliberately over size, with the intention that they shall be photographically reduced - some of the machines cannot cope with type sizes smaller than about eight or ten point.

   • 2006, Simon Loxley, Type: The Secret History of Letters, →ISBN, page 183:

     But on the filmsetting machine, the matrix case, which on the hot-metal caster had contained metal matrices, now contained tiny photographic negatives of each character.

   • 2007, John Lewis, Typography: Design and Practice, →ISBN, page 110:

     In filmsetting it is almost impossible to define where 'widows' will occur when copy marking or setting at the keyboard.