What Does Photosetting Mean?

Phototypesetting is a method of setting type, rendered obsolete with the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software, that uses a photographic process to generate columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper.

How is photocomposition done?

Photocomposition, also called Phototypesetting, or Filmsetting, method of assembling or setting type by photographing characters on film from which printing plates are made. In other machines the characters are generated by computer and electronically created on the film. ...

What is a photoset?

verb. Photoset is defined as to arrange a group of photographs or pictures for printing. Gathering together a set of pictures of trees that all go together and show the trees through the seasons is an example of photoset.