The newspaper industry's hot metal dinosaurs - the Linotype, Intertype and Ludlow typecasting machines - were eliminated by photosetting, a short-lived intermediate trend that was, in its turn, crushed in the stampede toward our high-tech digital PostScript era.
Photosetting has much more economical methods of typeface production than metal setting.
Derivatives
photoset
verbˈfəʊtəʊsɛt
[with object]Printing
Set (material for printing) by projecting it on to photographic film from which the printing surface is prepared.
The text was photoset and printed by offset lithography.
The book is photoset from the original papers and there is a variety of type styles, some of which have. reproduced better than others.