tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post8851300898558020333..comments2023-05-18T09:26:40.814-04:00Comments on Thoughts on association publishing: Throwing Away My T-SquareBob Silversteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066082859129301175noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-87170067769978893402011-06-15T09:50:39.456-04:002011-06-15T09:50:39.456-04:00Fear not. I still have my X-Acto knife and a half-...Fear not. I still have my X-Acto knife and a half-empty box of #11 blades.<br /><br />BobBobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-13678158142708744112011-01-05T20:13:14.330-05:002011-01-05T20:13:14.330-05:00Just finished reading this 5-part memoir. I've...Just finished reading this 5-part memoir. I've been writing a book on this same theme for the last 10 years or so, but I'm not done yet, still working in what's left of the "typesetting" trade. I started in 1978 on a Varityper, learned Compugraphic and Bedford and the seminal commercial graphic system, Genigraphics. We all got laid off around 1991 and I swam upstream to prepress work in big time printing, where I've worked ever since, taking the disks from the "desktop publishers" and turning the files into offset plates. Always glad to stumble across someone else's take on the whole shebang! Jeff Schalles, MinneapolisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-38000072992434996012009-07-24T10:40:29.070-04:002009-07-24T10:40:29.070-04:00I remember these developments as well, though I wa...I remember these developments as well, though I was a neophyte editor at the time. I remember having separate machines -- called "soft" typesetters -- that would enable us editors to set up our own pages after a designer had sketched them out for us. We followed her design, creating the rules and adding the text, trying desperately not to drop a line of text across spreads because the machines weren't sophisticated enough yet to do that for us. The machines were brutally slow, and the task added a significant amount of time to our daily tasks, especially during production week. The pages were printed on camera-ready paper and the printer added the images. We've come a long way! But I, for one, have never disposed of my X-Acto knife! I love it, use it for myriad purposes, and find there is no substitute for it when you need it. Come back to the X-Acto fold, Bob!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com