FROM NEWS TO NEWSPAPER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 5 (Supplement)

FROM NEWS TO NEWSPAPER

While the slugs of type have been accumulating on the linotypes the photographers and the artists have prepared their contributions to the news of the day, and etchers have been employed in the delicate work of preparing half-tone blocks. Proofs of these blocks are seen and approves ny the editorial and sub-editorial staffs, and explanatory reading matter is decided on. The blocks, with titles and descriptions, are then forwarded to the composing room to be fitted in their allotted spaces on the pages. “MAKING-UP” THE PAPER Now comes the important “making-up” of the paper, at which the literary department has its last say before pages are abandoned to mechanical processes. The chief sub-editor, or perhaps even a member of the editorial

frames known as “chases.” Column rules are inserted and the powerful screws of the chases are tightened to compress the page into a mass which can be lifted without fear of the slugs falling out. The locked pages are called formes and these are wheeled on iron trolleys to the stereotyping department. All the printers’ furniture, bulks, and composing benches are designed on the lines suggested by experts. An advantage appreciated by everyone who works in the composing room is the space; there is no knocking of elbows. A Miller saw-trimmer is the latest contrivance for panelling, boxing and artistic display work.

Provision for the making of THE SUN posters or contents boards, showing the news contained in each issue, is made by the installation of a press manufactured by Furnival and Co. Ltd. (Royal) London. Another big piece of machinery in the news room is the press which makes a proof of each page before it is sent to the stereo room. A glance at this proof shows the sub-editor exactly how the paper will look when it is released from the Hoe rotary press.

Display advertising, the machinery necessary to which is housed in the composing room, is one of the specialities of THE SUN. Artistic juggling with type of all sizes and with blocks is carried out by a staff of experts.