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René Higonnet

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contribution to art of printing

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    In printing: Second generation of phototypesetters: functional

    … in 1949 by two Frenchmen, René Higonnet and Louis Moyroud. Executed by phototypesetting, The Marvelous World of Insects was done on their machine in 1953. The first model had an attached keyboard. Later models with a separate keyboard printed more than 28,000 characters per hour.

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