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Lawrence Wallis: A Concise Chronology of Typesetting Developments, 1886-1986
[Lawrence Wallis]
In his 1988 slim book, A Concise Chronology of Typesetting Developments (London: The Wynken de Worde Society and Lund Humphries), Lawrence Wallis chronicles the history of photocomposition. The information below is from that source, via Paul Shaw's page on that topic. - Birth of phototype
- c.1959 Alphatype founded
- 1960 Compugraphic founded
- c.1960 Addressograph-Multigraph/Varityper founded
- 1960 First Alphatype machine
- 1965 Hell Digiset
- 1967 Varityper Headliner / AM 725
- 1967 Fairchild PU2000 and PU8000
- 1967 Berthold Diatronic
- 1967 IBM 2680
- 1968 Harris [Intertype] Fototronic 1200
- 1968 Compugraphic CG2961, CG4961 and CG7200
- 1968 Compugraphic CG2961 and CG4961 cheap
- 1969 Singer Justotext 70
- 1970 Harris Fototronic TxT
- 1970 Star Parts Co. Compstar 150
- 1970 type division created at Compugraphic
- 1971 Dymo acquires Star Parts
- 1971 Autologic founded
- 1971 CG Compwriter
- 1971 CompWriter allowed direct keyboard entry
- 1971 AM 747
- 1971 Autologic APS 4
- 1971 III [Information International Inc.] took over RCA Videocomp
- 1972 Autologic becomes a subsidiary of Volt Information Sciences, Inc.
- 1972 Fototronic 600
- 1972 MGD MetroSet successfully applied storage of digital fonts in outline form [CRT]
- 1972 MGD Metroset
- 1972 Bobst Eurocat
- 1973 Compugraphic Videosetter
- 1974 A-M Compuset
- 1975 Dymo Graphic Systems created
- 1975 MGD Graphics Systems Group part of Rockwell International
- 1976 new Alphacomp
- 1976 Quadritek 1200
- 1977 DLC-1000 Compositor from Dymo
- 1977 Compugraphic Editwriter
- 1977 Alphatype CRS
- 1977 Bobst begins photocomposition business
- 1978 Linotron 202
- 1978 MGD leaves the business
- 1978 AM Comp/Edit 5810
- 1979 III buys MGD
- 1979 Itek buys Dymo
- 1980 CG8600
- 1980 AKI (an Atex company) sells photocomposition
- 1980 Berthold and Alphatype merge (but see also 1981 below)
- 1980 Mycro-Tek, Inc. founded
- 1980 Foto Star International sells photocomposition
- 1981 Berthold buys Alphatype
- 1981 Autologic buys Bobst
- 1981 Bitstream founded
- 1981 Böger released Scantext 1000
- 1981 Volt buys Bobst
- 1981 Xerox (Xerox Printing Systems Division) licenses fonts from Mergenthaler including Optima, Melior and Palatino; digitized by Mergenthaler
- 1983 Digitek machine
- 1984 Tegra founded
- 1984 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) licenses CG fonts for DEC LN01
- 1984 Qubix licenses Bitstream fonts
- 1984 Harris licenses CG fonts for CT7000 as supplement to own type library
- 1984 Xyvision licenses CG fonts for Xyvision Laser Printer
- 1984 Harris quit the business
- 1985 Compugraphic MCS 8800
- 1985 Apple and Linotype announce alliance
- 1986 Tegra licenses Bitstream fonts
- 1986 Scantext 2000
- 1986 Berthold sells Alphatype
- 1986 URW announces type library, including URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua
- 1986 Bitstream licenses fonts to Hewlett Packard (HP)
- 1986 Esselte buys ITC
- 1986 Adobe downloadable fonts available with Apple LaserWriter; there are 12 packages that include 15 ITC fonts (among them ITC Zapf Dingbats and ITC Zapf Chancery), Palatino and Optima
- 1987 Alphatype acquires Alphabet Innovations type library
- 1987 Linotype sold to Commerzbank
- 1987 Linotype distributes Adobe fonts; Adobe Type Library announced
- 1989 Agfa Compugraphic created
- Death of phototype
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