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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 78, 31 March 1873, Page 2

Photo-Zincography. —The Evening Post says —" In the rear of the printing office, a photographic gallery, thirty feet by twelve feet, is beiDg erected, to enable the system of photo-zincography to be carried on. By this means, Acts of Parliament and papers of such a bulky nature as to render it difficult to carry them about, can be photographed in a greatly reduced size, and then printed so as to be conveniently carried in an ordinary pocketbook. A beautiful specimen of this work has been shown us. It is a complete copy of the Victorian Land Act, which as many of our readers are aware, is printed in a large size and makes a bulky book. But the photographed copy, though reduced to a size smaller; than any type in existence, is clear, legible, and can be easily carried in one's watch pocket. By this system it is intended to produce copies of the more important of tbe papers and Acts passed through Parliament, so that the joke of members being obliged to charter a special steamer to carry with tbem their printed documents will no longer be

current. The expense of producing such copies will, we understand, be remarkably small — quite in keeping, in fact, with the size of the productions. When once the photo-copy is made, any number of impressions can be worked 'off with fcbe greatest ease."