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So did phototypesetters basically work like printers, or was the output just used as a "master" to duplicate more copies of things like books using another kind

• thristian 11y ago
  There's references to the 202 requiring "silver nitrate paper"; basically a (presumably page-sized) photographic negative. That would have been used to produce a printing plate (in the Gutenberg sense) and then used to make actual hard-copies.
• cafard 11y ago
  The 202 ran out "galleys", photo paper maybe eight inches wide. The typical workflow was a) typesetter at a keyboard enters the file, b) program maybe tidies the file up for hyphenation & justification, c) galley run out and proofread, d) corrections entered if needed, e) galleys cut up and pasted onto cardboard pages, f) photographic negatives made from cardboard pages, g) lithographic plates made from the negatives, h) the pages printed. Items c and d could repeat a couple of times as necessary, and the customer usually had a look at the product as well ("bluelines" produced from the negatives).