The Mail-Journal, Volume 12, Number 18, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 May 1975 — Page 24

Modern equipment used by typesetters, composing room

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Sharon Gilbert and Connie Coy are shown proofreading an ad which will appear in a coming issue of one of the papers. Sharon, left, joined the staff in June of 1961. She first wrote copy for The Milford Mall in the Syracuse office, coming to Milford once a week to help on press day. Later, she transferred to Milford where she became a proofreader and continued to write short news items. She, too, learned many varied jobs. Today, Sharon is in charge of the mailing department. She supervises the Inserting, labeling, sorting, mailing and distribution of all three editions of 'the paper,' as they come off the press. Sharon also addresses The Mai I-Journal each week and is responsible for updating its growing subscription list. Connie does the biggest share of proofreading news stories with help from Sharon Gilbert and Sharon Ringler.

From the typesetting room, the tape goes to the composing room. There it Is run through the Compugraphic496l photo unit. The machine was put into operation In the fall of 1969. Shown in the photo on the left, running a tape on the phototypesetting machine is Sandy Truex. The high-speed machine reads the tape and photographs it onto Kodak photomechanical paper. It automatically calculates the amount of blank space required for flush left - flush right composition. In the photo above, Linda Replogle is shown with one of the cassettes from the photo unit at the Kodak Ektamatic processor. Film In the cassettes is developed in the processor. It is then ready for the proofreading department.

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News goes from the editorial department to the typesetters. TTS machines are used to punch computer tapes. The tapes ultimately become the stories that appear in print. Legal notices and type for heads and ad copy (s’/2 to 12 point) are also set on the TTS machines. Betty Young, at the front machine, was the first person hired to operate the TTS machines. When she began punching tape back in 1965, the plant was still operating on "hot type." The tape was run on an Intertype with TTS attachment. It read the tape and set the lines of type automatically on lead slugs. With this method, typesetters had to stop and justify each line to make the right margin OVGH • With the conversion to offset, a second teletypesetter was purchased and the girls no longer need to justify lines, speeding the typesetting operation considerably. The justifying is done automatically by the computer through which the tape is fed. Shown at the back machine is Linda Musselman. Standing to her left is Diane Weisser.

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