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In the late 1960s, Compugraphic introduced the 7200 and 2900 photocomposition machines. Prepared by a computer, a tape would be fed into a phototypesetter, which would imprint type from a strip of film onto Kodak -made Ektamatic (light-sensitive) paper, which would then be used for paste up .
1969 – Compugraphic 7200 & SGML. The Compugraphic 7200 and 2900 photocomposition machines allow operators to enter text using a computer and write the information to tape. This tape is fed into a phototypesetter which imprints type from a strip of film onto light-sensitive Kodak Ektamatic paper.
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Nov 9, 2017 · Publication date. 1980. Topics. photocomposition, phototypesetting, keyboard. Collection. wicharytypewriter; folkscanomy; additional_collections. Language. English. A brochure describing keyboard layouts for the Compugraphic CG 7200 photocomposition machine.
Feb 10, 2011 · Then, the managing editor types the headlines on a Compugraphic 7200 headline machine. It, too, used a type font on film behind a strobe to expose photo paper. The strips of photo paper, which were about an inch wide and could be six feet long or more, were developed in the chemical processing machine (unless they got tangled up along the way).
Sep 21, 2012 · I worked on all three of the machines below – a Mergenthaler CorrectTerm, and AKI Ultra Count, and a Compugraphic 7200, which set large headline type. As I said, screens were pretty “dumb” back then – the best you could hope for was a rough approximation of the actual type output.
Nov 11, 2012 · Typesetting in 1977. It is sobering to recall all the machinery we needed to set type in the BC-era (Before Computers). Well, I take that back. This was a computer—a Compugraphic, to be exact. This, along with the IBM Magnetic Tape machines, was the state of the art in typesetting via computer back in the late ’60s and ’70s.
Phototypesetting is a method of setting type which uses photography to make columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper. [1] [2] It has been made obsolete by the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing which gave rise to digital typesetting . The first phototypesetters quickly project light through a film negative of an ...
