When Was Photocomposition Developed?

Typesetting by photography was proposed as early as 1866. The Hungarian engineer Eugene Porzolt designed the first photocomposing machine in 1894, but machines such as the Fotosetter did not become available commercially until the 1950s.

Who was the inventor of phototypesetting?

Louis Marius Moyroud and Rene Higonnet developed the first practical phototypesetting machine. This, along with Merganthaler's Linotype machine, is one of two major innovations created in type composition since Gutenberg's invention of movable type.

What does a phototypesetting machine do?

A phototypesetting machine works by projecting text onto a light-sensitive medium – film in some models, photosensitive paper in others – which is then used to transfer the material for offset printing. ... By the 1960s, it became possible to use CRT monitors to display multiple lines of text, and even images, onto film.