. Essentials in journalism; a manual in newspaper making for college classes. amera to give the finishedplate a better printing face. This stippled effect in a half-tonemay be noticed in any newspaper, where a coarser screen is usedthan is employed in book half-tones. In large newspaper offices very little typesetting is done by meansof the old hand method, except in the case of advertisements. Thetypesetting machine, which does five times as much work as the old-style compositor, is now almost universally adopted. The machinesare of three types, all operated by means of keyboards similar to G
. Essentials in journalism; a manual in newspaper making for college classes. amera to give the finishedplate a better printing face. This stippled effect in a half-tonemay be noticed in any newspaper, where a coarser screen is usedthan is employed in book half-tones. In large newspaper offices very little typesetting is done by meansof the old hand method, except in the case of advertisements. Thetypesetting machine, which does five times as much work as the old-style compositor, is now almost universally adopted. The machinesare of three types, all operated by means of keyboards similar to GETTING THE PAPER PRINTED l8l those on typewriters. One of these machines sets actual type in along line which needs to be justified to the proper lengths by thecompositor himself. After they are used they are dis-type by tributed automatically by means of various nicks in themachinery ^^^^ ^£ ^^^j^ ^^ ^^^ types, which allows it to drop into the proper groove to be used again at the touch of the proper second style of machine utilizes a perforated strip of paper on. Finishing Touches by Hand Courtesy New York Ilor/d Although the metal plate used on the presses is mechanically cast from the paper matrix, there are always some slight blemishes that must be tooled out by hand. Where many casts are made, this work keeps several persons busy which the letters are recorded. This perforated strip, like the rollof a pianola, determines the casting of the line. The third andmost popular style is called the linotype, a machine invented byOttmar Mergenthaler and subsequently improved by many modi-fications and additions. This machine composes and casts entirelines of type, justifying the lines automatically. The operativemechanism is based upon a series of matrices — small, thin, brass 182 ESSENTIALS IN JOURNALISM plates with letters cut into the edges. These matrices to the num-ber of several hundred are stored in a magazine, which can bequickly removed to give place to another
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