The Mail-Journal, Volume 12, Number 18, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 May 1975 — Page 26

The photographies of it all

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Coming from the darkroom, the page lineshots are opaqued and pictures are stripped in before the image is burned on aluminum sheets called printing plates. The opaquihg is done to blot out unwanted marks, such as finger smudges, untrimmed paper, extra wax, etc., that would otherwise appear on printed pages. Shown working on a page is Stewart Coy, a recent graduate of Wawasee high school. Stewart worked for The Papers Incorporated last year as a member of the distributive education class of the school.

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After paste up pages are completed they are sent to the camera galley for reproduction on a 17 inch x 23 inch negative. The page reproduction Is called a lineshot. Lloyd Coy is shown at the firm's large Brown Caravel process camera. Besides being used for page reproduction, the camera is capable of enlarging images 300 per cent or reducing them to 25 per cent of their original size. The camera was originally installed in the darkroom in 1968 when the conversion was made to offset printing. It was moved, as was the darkroom, into the new addition early this year. Lloyd's first job at The Milford Mail is one he remembers well. It was back in 1940 that he and Ira Chupp helped “Mr. Baumgartner move into his building by hauling a scales down the street in a wagon." While still in school, he began his tenure of employment with the newspaper. At first he was clean-up boy, graduating to more detailed work as he grew older. He entered the air force in 1951, returning to Milford and the newspaper plant in 1955. Like others in the shop at that time, he learned all the steps of the printing business. He was soon operating the linotype, developing photographs, making-up pages and running the press. Today Lloyd does the darkroom work, which consumes much of his time, and is in charge of the commercial job shop.