Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-08-21
PROGRESS IN ART or PRINTING.


 the printing business, botn as publisn. CTS, editors and in the mechanical de-
 partments, who can recall the day
 when the feat of setting type by ma cbinery was regarded as physical i'm. possibility. It was Horace Greeley
 who said that there twill never be . successful mechanical typcsetter until some one invcnts machine which can chew tobacco and cuss the editor,' and Greeley died in that belief But the typcsctting machine was eventually in. vented and it is now in successful op. eration in all the larger newspaper of. fees and many of the smaller printing plants. It's introduction rcvolutionizcd the newspaper business. It prccipitatcd the publication of papers of volume not dreamed of in the days of hand compo sition and made possible the issuance of an extra edition in the space of q few minutes after information of an important happening reached the news. paper office. But the possibilities of the typesctting machine are yet hard. ly realized, despite the improvement and economy effected in the few years that they have been perfectd. A Limo. type Bulletin, just received, notes an incident which points conclusively to the fact that the machine will evcntu. ally supply the present function of typewritcrs, not only in newspaper of. fees, but in the professions and other lines of business which have matter which it is desired to print for general circulation. The Bulletin gets the incl. dent from the Norwalk (Conn.) Even. ing Hour, which says: "Thc sugges. tion that newspaper editors and report. CTS could dictate to n commercial talk. ing machine, and the linotype operators set their mats direct from the record, has become an absolute fact, and one of the large printing houses in New York has adopted the idea. Several re. producing machines have been placed alongside the linotypes, and as fast as court stenographers can dictate their notes into the recording machines the records are sent to the operators. It has been found to save much time. and the results obtained are equal, if not superior, to those of the former method of setting the type from copy. Several other printing houses have taken the matter up, and if the trial now in pro. gross proves satisfactory, its general adoption is looked for" The Journal. Miner is of the opinion that eventually what are now known as operators on typesetting machines will be displaced by editors and newspaper reporters. That is, reporters will come in from the street with their notes and put them ia type direct from the linotype, instead of using a typewriter to make copy Tor a second man to handle on the Editors will write their copy under the same conditions and lawyers will dictate briefs to shorthand report. CTS, who, in turn, will dictate them to linotype operators and get them ready for printing without any other tran. Indeed, 1t is not impossible that the linotype will effect another and more far.rcaching revolution in the publication of newspapers. By electric. ally connecting the keyboard on a machine with q similar keyboard in the big news centers there Is no reason why man at the central station could not operate his keyboard and put in type in the various papers taking the report, news which is now 'ent by the Associated Press, United | Press or other newsgathering and dis. associations. It is said that experiments to thst end are already 'nder way in Germany ,and have proved successful on a small scale. If hat be so, it will not be many years before the plans are elaborated upon md the system inaugurated through. ut the country. Within the past wenty or twenty-five years there has 'een marked progress in every line If senius, thought and industry, but in 'othing nave there been greater strides onward than in the printing of news. papers, and there is nothing which 'ormises greater development and more innovations in tho f,,t,,,