Word: photon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably the greatest single advantage of Photon is its versatility. Without any more effort than pushing a different control, the operator can switch type faces and sizes in the middle of lines. The machine, moreover, will still tell him when he has typed a full line, no matter how many different sizes of types he uses...
...metal typesetting machine could not do any complex work like this so automatically. It would require a highly skilled operator four times longer to set up in type any of the complicated lay-outs so often used in advertising copy. A competent Photon operator, however, can learn how to use his machine in about two weeks. And his speed, even on normal, "straight" copy, is on the average twice as fast as that of the conventional machine's operator...
...their first test model induced the Lithomat Corporation to undertake the development and perfection of their machine. In 1948, with the machine still not ready for production, the Graphic Arts Research Foundation, Inc., was founded to help the inventors. This non-profit organization has financed the further development of Photon by soliciting contributions from 200 to 300 firms in the graphic arts industry. Actual production of the machine started only about two years ago, and there are still only five machines in commercial operation, with four more ready for shipment to the Ledger next March. By next year, the manufacturers...
...relation between the Graphic Arts Research Foundation and Photon, Inc. is an interesting one. Both are located in the same building and many of the officials of the non-profit organization are also connected with the Manufacturing licensee company. The Research Foundation was established in recognition of "the urgent need for research in the graphic arts." The organizers realized that the printing and publishing industry was not research conscious, and that specific research projects would be required to attract the needed, initial financial support. Consequently, Photon was chosen as the basis of the Foundation's first project. It owns...
...photocomposition system used by Photon is the first really new development in printing since Mergenthaler's invention. It promises to outdate, in time, all the conventional methods of hot-metal typesetting. The machine's performance for the Ledger--that newspaper intends to replace its 23 linotype machines with eight or ten of Photon--certainly indicates that someday photocomposition machines will be in as common use as Mergenthaler's invention is today...