| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION During our first year at Roosevelt we had one operator quit and another often inebriated to the point where he couldnsee the keyboard When he was sober he was one of the best in the state but that wasnoften found myself setting type during the daytime then returning at night to completemyriad of tasks that fall the lot of an editor-publisher We advertised for operators but found no takers Ashby continued There was simply no one training for this occupation because the handwriting was on the wall It wasfading industry After several months of doubling up assignments we made the switch on November 1966 Ingenious minds had been at work with phototype While early efforts were even slower than hot metal there was light at the end of the tunnel Intertype had conceded this was the way of the future when it adapted the basic elements of its hot lead machines to instead produce photographic reproductions with its Fotosetter Linotype labelled its similar product the LinoFilm And to its straight matter composition machine Linotype joined the Davidson Corporation in producingTYPICAL COMPUGRAPHIC installation was made at the Price SunAdvocate in 1971 Dan Stockburger at left was the plant superintendent and Robert Finney center the publisher The Comp 4961 has their attention 232 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
