Word: letterpress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Justified Lines. Crisply attractive, the new 5?, 32-page Middletown Daily Record looked different-and it is. The paper is the first sizable venture in daily publishing by a "cold type" photo-offset process instead of conventional letterpress printing. The process uses no hot metal, no Linotype machines, no matrixes or engraved plates. Copy is typed on special typewriters that print "justified" lines, i.e., they fill out each line flush to the right-hand margin. Then it is pasted on a sheet, photographed and printed on an aluminum plate, much as a photographic negative is printed. Mounted on a press...
...Kodak engineers who labored jointly on the project for ten years. An electronic "computer," it automatically transmutes color transparencies (Kodachrome, Ektachrome, etc.) into four separate negatives (one for each color) from which engravings or lithographic plates are made for four-color printing. Other Springdale firsts include an aluminum-backed letterpress plate, an internal lockup plate cylinder, a high-speed bindery, and the "balanced light"illuminator...
...Letterpress, which requires four printings-red, yellow, blue. black-on coated paper, permits vast quantity...