PRINTING WITHOUT TYPE

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 96, 15 January 1901, Page 4

PRINTING WITHOUT TYPE

The progress made in I methods of printing during! last few years is so marvellous!! it is difficult to believe that >1 thing more complete than I linotype can be devised by! ingenuity of man. Yet I displacement of all median! compositors is now threatened the introduction of the cami An. American trade journal 8 that the publisher of the l& instead of having many fonts heavy and costly type, will provided simply with a fist square white cards, on each which will be a large block let an inch or more in height. Hi cards will be placed in a Bed of horizontal lines on a slab ® for the purpose, following copy, that the letters will read just! those on the text that is to reproduced. A camera place! front will photograph the left its distance from them detenu® the size of the text as it is eva ally to appear. The negative ft made will be developed in then* manner. It will only remain etch the plate and print fro® just as a picture similarly prep* is printed 10-day. A machine! already been constructed wh taking the place of the iype-fietfr machine, “ sets up ” the cards the rack according to copy* photographs them, one line time, the sensitive plate nwt automatically so as to take matter line by line until Then, of course, it is removed i developed in a dark room, win upon it is ready to transfer imprint to the metal plate, w* is duly etched. The process ® expeditiously performed that in thirty minutes from the • exposure of the negative die f plate is ready to go to p s Another revolution in printing® thus he one of the surprises! twentieth century has in sto«'