Definition of filmsetting in English:

noun

• The setting of material to be printed by projecting it on to photographic film from which the printing surface is prepared.

  Also called photocomposition

  Example sentences

  • ‘This brought flashbacks of headline filmsetting on my first job.’
  • ‘Successful marketing of filmsetting to printers in the 1950s and 1960s was owed in large part to the pains taken to make the product resemble as closely as possible the metal technology it proposed to replace.’