imagesetter
image setter

The resolution of an imagesetter is typically between 1200 and 4800 dpi.

An imagesetter is an ultra-high resolution large-format computer output device.

An imagesetter usually has an accuracy rate of +/-2%.

The imagesetter has been largely superseded by the platesetter.

Development (processing) usually occurs in a unit separate to the imagesetter, as does raster image processing.

The use of bromide paper instead of film in an imagesetter allows it to produce paper output called bromides.

An image drawn on, say, a Macintosh screen is stuck forever at 72dpi whether printed out on a matrix printer or an imagesetter.

Take, as an example, a typesetting house with a traditionally front-ended Linotronic 300 imagesetter and a respectable font library.

CTP methods differ according to the construction type of the imagesetter and the light source used to expose the plate surface.

The system was completed by the filmsetter unit, a drum-based laser imagesetter with a (then massive) 10Mb hard drive.

In the 1980s, halftoning became available in the new generation of imagesetter film and paper recorders that had been developed from earlier "laser typesetters".

The first commercially successful laser imagesetter, able to make use of a raster image processor was the Monotype Lasercomp.

Bromide paper is very similar to black & white photographic paper, except the backing is much thinner, and like imagesetter film is of diminished spectral sensitivity.

For the first time ever it would be possible to take, say, an Autologic font and run it, straight out of the box, on a Linotype or Monotype imagesetter.

Page negatives photographed of pasted-up pages - and later, paginated pages sent directly to an imagesetter that produced page negatives - were driven to the plant for platemaking.

On specification alone it would seem to be a logical alternative to an imagesetter for any small to medium volume publishing house who were not obsessed with typographic detail - ie the majority.

The user prepares a document using Berthold fonts and sends it to a bureau for output on an imagesetter which just happens to be running Hell-Xenotron's Bridgit.

Perhaps AM was worried that it might take some of the momentum away from their PostScript imagesetter but then they hardly seem to be setting the world alight with that either.

The digital product of this software can be outputted to an imagesetter that creates larger piece of film, or directly to a platesetter which generates a plate that can go directly to press.

The RIP generates the final raster image that will be printed directly (as in desktop inkjet or laser printing), set to photographic film or paper (using an imagesetter), or transferred direct-to-plate.

Manufactured by Mergenthaler Linotype Company and popularized by the Adobe RIP, enabling PostScript language files to be imaged by the Linotronic imagesetter.

In printing, DPI (dots per inch) refers to the output resolution of a printer or imagesetter, and PPI (pixels per inch) refers to the input resolution of a photograph or image.

Quite apart from introducing the problem of just how you get the document to the bureau in the first place (we know of people who have extra hard disks for just this purpose) the time it takes to run such a document through an imagesetter can be significant in the extreme.

Imagesetter film is a silver halide-coated plastic film very similar to normal black & white photographic film, except the spectral sensitivity is reduced to a much narrower band around the output of the laser of the individual imagesetter.

Since these powerful models are to be top-of-the-line image setters for the entire marque, they are expensive and relatively few in number.

The Spectator installed an image setter to take fully paginated pages direct to negative film, rather than printing from a quality laser printer.

Moreover, customers increasingly are cherry-picking the components of their graphic arts systems - buying a scanner, say, from one company, and an image setter from another - rather than buying a whole system from one manufacturer.

In the early 1990s Harlequin was commissioned by Xenotron to develop a raster image processor (RIP) to run on Macintosh computers to drive their Ultre-based image setters, exposing onto film and resin-coated (RC) paper.