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Intertype Fotosetter @ MIAT
Intertype Fotosetter @ MIAT

Europe, Belgium, Flanders, Vlaanderen, Gent, Industrie museum, (MIAT), Intertype photosetter (slightly cut from all sides).

Shot in the ‘Industrie museum’ in Gent (formerly known as 'MIAT', a friendly lady at the reception desk told us that the museum went through 3 name changes during the last 7 year). It's probably the leading production technology museum in the Benelux.

Almost a whole floor of the ‘Industrie museum; is reserved for the history of printing technology. And this floor shows a fascinating historic array of pre-press- and print technology.

On display here is something that looks like a giant typewriter. And it kinda is... but in a more fundamental way. A typewriter employs type to allow the user to produce texts. And the ‘fotosetter’, (an 'Intertype Fotosetter'), shown here does the same, but…before doing that it first manufactures the type (the letters) itself. The produced texts (a series of letters) is then moved to the printing press.

The machine was build in the early 60s of the previous century, was very expensive and only 50 were ever produced. The manufacturing of the letters (type) is handled by means of a photographic process. It was a big step-up from the previous generation typesetter which formed the type (letters) by melting metal and pouring it in little letter molds.

The earliest and most primitive form of typesetting was of course the manual one: an artisan printer was surrounded by a wealth of lead letter fonts in various sizes & thicknesses and formed words and sentences with it by placing them one by one on a page plate. - basically the Gutenberg way (Gutenberg invented movable type round 1445).

Nowadays, letter setting is rendered obsolete thru the use of the (personal) computer and desktop publishing software, almost seamlessly integrated with the printing press.

This is number 54 of the Gent album and 8 of Motorola Moto G5S Plus.

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Taken on: March 8, 2020
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Camera: motorola Moto G (5S) Plus, f/2.0, 1/33 sec, 3.6mm, ISO 403 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: motorola Moto G (5S) Plus
Aperture: f/2.0
Exposure Time: 0.03 sec (1/33)
Focal Length: 3.6mm
ISO: 403
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Program AE
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop 21.1 (Windows)
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