Frank waxes nostalgic about the Compugraphic CompuWriter phototypesetter and how it helped expand the newspaper market. Working for Compugraphic at the time, Frank’s first book was all about how to start a profitable newspaper—with a CompuWriter that made typesetting easy. But now newspapers are trading paper for pixels and the traditional paper is sadly going away.
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By James Kohler on May 21, 2021
Call me an old guy but I still love getting the New York Times especially the Sunday edition. You get far more in-depth news than what I get electronic.
By Gordon Pritchard on May 21, 2021
In 1985 I set up a weekly newspaper in Prince Rupert Canada using a MAC and laser writer:
(https://the-print-guide.blogspot.com/2010/03/wayback-view-march-1985-apple.html).
The laser writer print outs were used as camera-ready art to create film negatives to burn plates for the press. The union was not happy about that turn of events.
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