| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION love to see old Joe shake his head in disbelief as he wipes all the names from Arizona oops Wyoming off his list Utahout-state dailies followed the lead of the smaller papers as soon as retirement of their letterpress equipment became practical The Provo Daily Herald unveiled its first offset paper on February 15 1970 recalls Jerry Myrup 45 year member of its production staff His tenure at the paper ascarrier thenpart-time staff member actually goes back more thanhalf-century The changeover was synchronized with the opening of the papersecond new building in10year period of time he points out Improved appearance was only one objective of offset conversion Myrupsummation reflects People costs were important too Prior to switching to offset seven Linotypes were in use in the composing room where up to 23 people were employed Five pressmen and two stereotypers were producing the Herald on24-page Goss rotary tubular press Page capacity of the offset press when installed doubled that of the re tired rotary and only six pressmen were required Fourteen employees produced advertising on two Photon 200B typeset ting machines and set news type on two Compugraphics 2900 and4900 Offset conversion meantnet difference of ten people on the payroll Like other dailies and its smaller sister-papers in Utah the Herald has continued to upgrade typesetting equipment as computerization has triggered one advancement after another For me itbeen an eventful 50 years Myrup concludes Through this period of change the statetwo largest dailies the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News were acutely awarerevolution was in progress But they were so financially committed to existing letterpress equipment that they were forced to continue its use until their investment was fulfilled The papers were and are jointly produced in the plant of Newspaper Agency Corporation so in some respects they were as linked asset of congenitally united Siamese twins What 238 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
