13 Jan
2017
13 Jan
'17
12:19 p.m.
On Jan 13, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Toby Thain <toby at
telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 2017-01-13 3:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Yes, its primary job was newspaper galley setting when I bought it, but I did
bureau work on the side. Even some negatives of questionable density ;)
The quality issue I remembered was somewhat jaggy outlines, even though the scan
resolution was entirely adequate. It was the first outline based typesetter I've
seen, and you could tell from the film -- but not from newsprint -- that the outline
shapes weren't quite fine enough. It's possible I'm remembering wrong and
that was the Linotron 300 that had this issue. Perhaps so, the dates for PostScript
don't quite fit the dates when I was doing this stuff.
paul
On Jan 13, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Toby Thain <toby
at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
...
AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
Has a 68K computer inside it with Adobe ROMs. Communication via serial or AppleTalk.
One of the first high resolution PostScript imagesetters. Put a lot of feet of bromide
paper through it.
Neat! By the standards of the time, those were not really high image
quality, but definitely adequate and successful for newspaper work. I
remember working with them in the early 1980s.