The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-06-22
.SREBA .IINIV|EN'TS
NEWTYPESETTER
Linotype Adaptable For Use In
Japan and China Is Now
Being Manufactured
(From Sunday Advertiser) q.

(From Sunday Advertiser)
The first mechanical typesetter, for
use in Japanese newspaper Office ever
built will reach Honolulu in the
course of few weeks for installation
In the mechanical department of the Ha.
waii Shinpo newspaper Office. The ma
chine, now being constructed in one Of
the big manufacturing plants. on the
mainland, is the invention of s. Sheba,
owner and editor of the Hawaii Shinpo,
and if it fulfls the, Axpsc tation. Of Mr.,
Sheba it will bring about a revolution
| in the printing business throughout
Japan, China, Korea and those other
counties where the use of the ideo.
graph has heretofore prevented the
adoption Of modern typeSetting ma.
| chinery.
While the average English publica-
ton is nowadays "set up mechani-
| yalIy, by one of the several different
styles of typesetthg and typeNatstfng
achines, the Japanese and Chinese
have beeip obliged ntoE stick" to- the old,
one type at "a 1tims,- has'iise thing 8ys-
tenn, a tremendous handicap in these
days of labor saving machinery and
methods, necessarily limiting the pro.
duction of printed matter in those
countries. The Roman alphabet con.
tains twenty eight letters; the type
setting machines. for the use of those
using the Romantic letters have, in all,
counting figures punctuation marks
and such, some ninety characters in all
10 Lax a
} Chinese use; literally, thousands Of diff
ferent characters, and the task of de-
yising a setting or casting machine
with these oriental characters has here
tofore been thought an impossibiIity
Approved BY Experts
| Mr.. Sheba, who has been at the San
Francisco fair since the day it opened
until his return to Honolulu on Friday
has applied himself to the mastering
of this impossibility, however, and sc
successful has been his work that his
drst machine is now being built, with
printing experts declaring that he has
: invented a workable typecaster.
For all practical purposes, Mr.. Sheba
has decided that the employment OF
; I've thousand characters will answer
and his machine will be able to cast
hat many different type faces. OF
these five thousand, one thousand art
most frequently used, and the keys
which will control the matrices fo'
these thousand will be placed together
N the center Of the great keyboard.
Sliding Operator
For the setting of the type for The
Advertiser, each of the seven linotype
operators employed sits before hi
machine, with his ninety. keys RICH
I under his hands. To set the type OF
D the Shcba machine, the operator viii
lit before the thousand most used keys
with his chair on wheels ON a miniature
a track. When the occasion comes t.
! strike any one of the keys at a dis
I lance, the operator will slide his seat t.
P bring himself within reach of the key
: then propel himself back to the key
board center.
, Mr. Sheba has, applied for American
! Japanese and Chinese patents on hi
machine, approaching what it will meal
! should itl fulfil his expectations.
=, Studied the Question ~
l The ShiRpo editor went to San Fran
cisco primarily as English secretary t.
Admiral Uriu, the representative of tn
+ the admiral returned to Japan, Mr.-She
ba WAS delegated to study the processe
. of printing, as shown at the exposition
o He spent weeks going over the variou
j. exhibits of typesetting machinery AM
= paid repeated visits to the variou
V great printing shops on San francisco
J, He studiedAthe manufacture of printing
h machinery from the first crude model
to the present laborgsat ing machines
making himself eRT expertjtg tba matter
5 He studied always with a view o
T, discovering labor.saving short cuts T.
g be put into practise in his Honolulu
v shop, and out OF his Studies came hi
i, idea of y typeeaStins machine TO
n japanese characters ~
N it is safe to say tRdt n the machin
{ is found practicable. in actual use, i
It viii mark the beginning of new "lOe