Diatype Machine - video

[Dave Hughes]

By Derivat graph - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1806861

First introduced in the 1960s the Diatype was a very basic photo-typesetting machine.

I remember being taught about similar machines in technical college in the 1970s.

Their slow speed of operation would only really be suitable for production in a jobbing shop.

This video, shot at the printing museum Pavillon-Presse in Weimar, Germany explains how this device works.


https://youtu.be/76qwCF6ThLs

Does anyone remember using this or a similar machine?