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kskiska

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Tue Sep-14-04 03:26 PM
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5. I'm with you regarding the Composer

Edited on Tue Sep-14-04 03:27 PM by kskiska

It wasn't a machine your average secretary could easily master, or needed to. It was a typesetter. It was cumbersome to use, and was replaced when the first photo-typesetters came out. I remember doing type on the Composer for the paste-up artists. I had to use a special slick paper. The type smeared easily and had to be sprayed with fixative before pasting up. We replaced it with a (Merganthaler?) LinoComp. Those were no breeze to operate, either.

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