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...reproduction of these paintings in TIME involved the use of a new machine that TIME readers in the printing trade, in advertising, etc. may have heard about. The machine is an electronic color scanner, one of a whole group of experimental developments now under way. The scanner is designed to produce faster and more accurate color separation negatives. It may foreshadow a new era in the quality of color printing. It was originally conceived by Eastman Kodak engineers and cooperatively developed by TIME Inc.'s research laboratories, which are exploring a wide range of new printing developments in cooperation...
...Comes Out Here. Hogan developed a simplified system: for the transmitter, a photoelectric scanner that "read" copy from a revolving cylinder; for the receiver, an electrolytic printer that left a thin metal deposit on damp paper (it came out dry). The paper cost a dollar for a 400-ft. roll, enough to last a subscriber for a month...
...which have been selected for him. Last week at Northwestern University a young graduate student in psychology named Emil Ranseen demonstrated an invention by which a sightless reader patient enough to learn a touch code may read any book he chooses. After it is adjusted for proper spacing, a scanner supported on tiny rollers moves back & forth across the printed page examining one letter after another in rapid succession. The light passes through a lens, thence to a slotted, motor-driven disk which analyzes the shape of the letter. Then a photo-electric cell converts the light into electric current...
...transmitter, a photograph, drawing or message is scanned photoelectrically as in television. Lights and shadows are converted by the scanner into electric impulses, which, at the receiving end, control a stylus under which a roll of carbon-backed paper...
...Scanner Jones' reasons for the flattening enrollment graph: 1) Reduction in immigration; 2) Small rate of increase in native population; 3) Increased enrollment in Junior colleges...