tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.comments2023-05-18T09:26:40.814-04:00Thoughts on association publishingBob Silversteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066082859129301175noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-19956177246133817412016-01-28T10:48:54.080-05:002016-01-28T10:48:54.080-05:00They are not just beautiful; they additionally off...They are not just beautiful; they additionally offer a lot of space to write in imperative occasions or arrangements. They make superb presents for family or companions and can be customized with family or different photographs at pretty much any photograph preparing focus. <a href="http://www.afs-host.com/" rel="nofollow">calendar</a> Rashel Ahmedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09586359743577157602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-11453179359445231472012-07-02T08:59:20.083-04:002012-07-02T08:59:20.083-04:00Fourteen year old Augustus Tomlin's day starte...Fourteen year old Augustus Tomlin's day started out just like any other—normally. He got out of bed, dressed, brushed his teeth, then headed for the kitchen to join his adoptive parents, Earl and Marge for breakfast. This was the first day of their vacation, and admittedly, Augie (as he liked to be called) wasn't as excited about it as he would've been had Earl and Marge decided to take them all to Disneyland instead, because firstly, he'd been dealing with a paralyzing fear of water all of his life, and secondly, they were staying in a cabin on an isolated stretch of beach in the Florida Keys. Nevertheless, there was no way for Augie to know just then that by the end of the day he'd be traveling in an under-sea carriage drawn by four of the most incredible creatures he'd ever laid eyes upon, heading for destinations untold somewhere at the bottom of the ocean at a million miles an hour.Cheap Flights to Abujahttp://www.seabreezetravels.com/flights-to-abujanoreply@blogger.comtag: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-29158557231997064112009-08-26T20:13:45.457-04:002009-08-26T20:13:45.457-04:00A great post that needs to be resurrected! Such a ...A great post that needs to be resurrected! Such a smart idea. Who cares about backlash. What is best for the members and the health of the association?Anonymousnoreply@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.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-74836630652231112622009-06-22T13:08:22.401-04:002009-06-22T13:08:22.401-04:00Paste-up! I haven't thought about these tools...Paste-up! I haven't thought about these tools in years. Thanks!<br /><br />Lynda RoyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-56683264114483832812009-06-18T16:51:54.574-04:002009-06-18T16:51:54.574-04:00I apprenticed at a small printing company from 197...I apprenticed at a small printing company from 1976-81, and worked at Auburn University's printing service from 81-84.<br /><br />I was introduced to the IBM Composer system, where you typed everything twice, and a year or so later we started using a CompuGraphic IV TG, which used film strips, and had a 2x lense so we could get some font size variation. <br /><br />Later, at Auburn University we had Veritypers which used disks and a zoom lens . . . the type was never really that sharp, but the system had a large CRT for reviewing and revising type, which was great.<br /><br />We also had an ancient Linotype, which was used for the Extension Service . . . they would set type and lock up a chase with a full page, pull a repro proof, paste the proof up and make overlays and/or add art for various county extension brochures, and it was great to see and hear how "real" typesetting was done, but I digress.<br /><br />I worked for a typesetting/design company from 84-86 in Atlanta who used a Comp 8400 system and they too bought an early Mac, a Mac Plus I believe to add tags so it could be output, then I left the company in 86 so I don't know what they did after that.<br /><br />In 1987 my freelance work turned to having my own clients and I worked with a typesetter who used yet another system, I can't remember. It used Mag Tapes to store the files, using refrigerator sized units to read and write the data.<br /><br />I landed a book project I bought my first Mac, a SE, and began to work with Quark XPress 1.02.<br /><br />I betan to work with another printer who was also using Macs as their front end for typesetting, and they would output pages on an Itek imagesetter. We still had to make pasteups and used overlays, but the output had crop marks and usually several rounds of laser proofing meant none of the cutting in "strip-ins" to fix a word here and there.<br /><br />The pasteups still had to be shot with a horizontal camera, and halftones had to shot and stripped into the negatives, but it was a great leap forward, and I could kern my type and adjust leading and make it just the way I liked it.<br /><br />The 1990s was great with scanners coming of age and finally digital files to film.<br /><br />I missed out on a lot of pre-press advancements during the late 1990s through 2003, as I was working with an Internet company and it wasn't until 2004 I started my own company again and made the transition to Adobe's CS and InDesign.<br /><br />As a designer, it was frustrating in the past when you had to markup type and maybe take it through a few rounds of work with typesetters to get it exactly as you wanted it.<br /><br />Today everything intersects at the same workstation . . . typesetting, image correction, design and pre-press which is great for someone who knows what they are doing and have the time.<br /><br />Do I want to go back to the old days and ways . . . not me. I like going from my files to plates.Vann Bakerhttp://www.design-first.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-57855664703431315092009-06-17T16:03:13.140-04:002009-06-17T16:03:13.140-04:00I still have a scar on the end of my finger where ...I still have a scar on the end of my finger where I sliced it off with an X-acto knife, and I have to say I miss the smell of hot waxers. And don't forget light tables and blue-line grids on the mechanicals.<br /><br />The oddest thing we did in the transition between typesetters and desktop publishing was connect a Macintosh 512k up to a Compugraphic 8400 and created type in place, bypassing a lot of pasteup. The 8400 used a CRT to image the type instead of film strips, but boy, was it slow.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00489314648580446317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-78968496380775900172009-06-01T13:29:45.019-04:002009-06-01T13:29:45.019-04:00Hilarious. I started my career in the typsetting ...Hilarious. I started my career in the typsetting business, first as a shift supervisor in a shop in transition from hot (Lin-O-Type) to cold (VIPs and Correct-terms) type. And then I went to Quadex (absorbed by Compugraphic then Agfa). And then to DEC to do inplant/commercial typesetting systems on VAX. Ha! This world is all gone, but I know type intimately and when desktop publishing on the PC came about I had already lived through it going from hot to cold (really from hot to hotter, but that's for another post). I do not work in this world any longer, but the grounding I had from the many transitions away from metal were a superb education in technology evolution, and design, and display typography. Thanks for the tip on this topic. Hope more of your readers chime in. <br /><br />LR in NYC metroAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-83974479944978182642009-05-13T08:51:00.000-04:002009-05-13T08:51:00.000-04:00We are looking at producing a digital version of o...We are looking at producing a digital version of our bimonthly magazine to extend its reach and adding an online presence that does not exist right now. I see your points about the digital version not being user-friendly, but we have a problem with getting the magazine in people's hands. And building a web site for the magazine is costly. We are moving our newspaper online because of timeliness of news. Our goals are different for the digital version of the magazine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-4412880443133284172009-04-08T11:56:00.000-04:002009-04-08T11:56:00.000-04:00Yes...and the problem appears to be that many publ...Yes...and the problem appears to be that many publishers view digital magazines as a low cost way of creating an online presence for their magazine. They can claim that they have an online version without considering the strategic implications that should go into developing a true online content-driven product.Bob Silversteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01066082859129301175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-4970898356086196472009-04-08T09:48:00.000-04:002009-04-08T09:48:00.000-04:00I could not agree more with this post. Having only...I could not agree more with this post. Having only an exact copy of your print product in digital form is really not adding anything of value for your readers, and very little for your advertisers. Often the page-turning software forces readers to either view an entire page at a size that is too small to read, or view part of a page or image at a size that is readable but is not practical. This is not an enjoyable, inviting reader experience. Only a truly multimedia online presence that complements your print product -- and delivers content in ways that readers actually want and will use -- will benefit the readers and the advertisers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-36260561962424047632009-04-02T09:19:00.000-04:002009-04-02T09:19:00.000-04:00Excellent points. I have been reading my own town ...Excellent points. I have been reading my own town paper for over 20 years, and it is has downsized tremendously in the past two years. paper stock and page size are down, total pages are down, but I would still subscribe if they stayed true to their mission-which is a focus on the local community. There is so little content that I wonder what I am paying for? I have been a loyal reader for years, but will be canceling because they simply are not delivering a worthy product anymore. I think all publishers need to step back and ask themselves the basic question. "Why would someone read my publication?" Saving money is one thing, stripping your product of its value is suicide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-55371638838296806502009-03-17T17:17:00.000-04:002009-03-17T17:17:00.000-04:00great article, I am printing to add to my sales bo...great article, I am printing to add to my sales book.Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291577123115510773.post-63446226822747426262009-02-28T15:38:00.000-05:002009-02-28T15:38:00.000-05:00I can only begin to imagine the backlash from staf...I can only begin to imagine the backlash from staff that this idea would cause.Bob Silversteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01066082859129301175noreply@blogger.com