Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1919 — ELIMINATE TYPESETTING BY REPRODUCING COPY. [ARTICLE]

ELIMINATE TYPESETTING BY REPRODUCING COPY.

Elimination of typesetting, one of the costliest articles—-of—magaXine-production, by the use of plates made by photographing the original typewritten copy, has been accomplished in the Oct. 18 issue qf the Literary Digest, consisting of eighty pages. This radical innovation was brought about by the printers’ strike in New York and leads the publishers .tCL-zSUggest that it is possible in this age of marvels that the whole future of magazine production may be revolutionized by the elimination of typesetting. , The make-up of the magazine is in no way changed, the only difference being that the style of the type is that used on typewriters and is uniform in ajl the reading matter throughout the number. The right hand side of each column is irregular as in ordinary type-written copy. Each page is in effect a photographic copy of the original article as written on the typewriter.