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American Type Founders Company (ATF)
1892-1993, consolidated 23 type foundries. The leading type and printing equipment business in the United States.
Linotype
Cast type in continuous lines called slugs. The machine has three parts: the composing machine (matrices assembled in lines by means of a keyboard), the casting mechanism (lines are justified and cast as slugs), and the distributing mechanism (returns the matrices to the matrix magazine).
Monotype
Two units: one for keyboarding and one for casting.
Offset lithography or offset printing
Uses a planographic method of printing. The image is first printed indirectly, i.e. "offset", onto a rubber cylinder ("blanket") and the image is printed (transferred) off the blanket. The most common printing process used today.
Phototypesetting or photocomposition or filmsetting
type setting produced on photographic paper or film. Also now refers to computer typesetting on a laser imagesetter.
Digital typesetting
Letterforms created from digitized data (i.e., electronically processed, stored, and reproduced), which were generalized on a cathode ray tube (CRT) and then photographed onto film or paper.
Laser imagesetter
a high resolution printer used to create copy for printing either on photographic paper or as film negatives or positives.
Photopolymer plates
Relief plates made of plastic materials to which the image has been created by photomechanical means.
Xerography
"dry writing". Electrostatic process for copying an original without ink, pressure, or rollers. Commercial development by Xerox.