Abstract: A photosetter comprises a main projection system having a projection objective for projecting a type image from an object plane onto a setting plane. The image at the object plane is provided either by a type carrier film located in the object plane, or, alternately or simultaneously, by an intermediate image projected from a film in a remotely located auxiliary projection system. Each projection system may comprise its own light source and condenser, or the light source for the auxiliary system can be used for both systems. In one embodiment, a movable mirror is used to direct the intermediate image to the object plane. Furthermore, the auxiliary projection system may include means for changing the size or distorting the intermediate image.

Abstract: A type carrier of the type that is clipped to a rotary cylindrical holder-carrier device. The type carrier is suitable for selecting chosen type symbols in photocomposing machines wherein several type carriers with different groups of type symbols and/or code information are sequentially distributed around a peripheral cylindrical surface. This arrangement is characterized by the fact that the flat type carrier consists of a thin sheet of elastic material capable of being deformed to a partial cylindrical segment and that the material so used is of the type which is practically insensitive to mechanical effects such as temperature variation. The type carrier is located on the inside peripheral surface of the cylindrical carrier-holding device.