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Different letters and styles of SliCk" for casting in a machine calk’d the LUdIOW- impression was made um illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllmullIIlIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIIllIlllllIIIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|llllllullullllllllllllIllll|||"mummmmumnuuummlmmwnunnunuuW , The printer Arranged in columns in a metal frame. the casts of the a “printer’s type were locked into position before a paper mache the Ludlow. impression was made under a heavy roller. In the past three months the method of producing The Liberal has changed entirely. The big, noisy linotype machines are gone now. The huge guillotine is no longer. And those heavy. cumbersome page-sized iron frames which held the type just before it went to press have disappeared too. Inn’ast, the whole composing room operation. once found in the basement of The Liberal offices on onnge Street, has completely vanished â€" stafftand all â€" and has moved to a big. bright room in the'Aurora Banner offices on Wellington Street in Aurora. And it's there the two newspapers are put together each week. The copy still is Yonge Street stand‘ afterwards that is operation. ‘The old machines and hot-lead system have given way to a new computerized photo-offset system. The work horse of the hot-type method of composition was the linotype. This machine derived its name from the way it cast a whole line of type at one time. Molten metal at a temperature of 625 degrees Fahrenheit was forced into small moulds and automatically trimmed to size. The Liberal had three of these machines to set all the type for the news columns and the body copy in advertisements; Another machine. called a Ludlow. cast the headlines after they were hand-set. The different letters and styles were kept in drawers and the printer arranged them on a “printer‘s stick" for David Belanger. employed at The Liberal for two years. uses a wooden block and rubber mallet to level the type on the proof press. A paper mache impression of the surface was made under a The Liberal gets the lead out produced at the same old but it's what happens to it the name of the Aurora casting in the Ludlow. The headlines and the columns of coov were then laid out within the metal frame. There were metal rules between the columns and when necessary, thin metal strips were used to space out the type to fit snugly the holes around the advertisements. Both m: and clean Fumes 1 shop. ma: “Now v veteran 0] he worked The metal frame was then tightened to lock the type into position and transferred from the “imposing stone" or table on a four-wheeled dolly to a mat roller. A paper mache mould of the page was created under a ton of pressure. This mould was sent to a press in Brampton where hot metal was again used to create the printing surface which went directly on the press. Photographs Qvere transferred onto a plastic surface and placed directly on this printing plate - Once the presses started to roll. another edition of The Liberal would be finished inside of half an hour. Now. the linotype machines have been replaced by Compugraphic 49615 and keyboard typesetters. On the keyboards. paper tapes are punched in code. These long tapes are then fed through the computer-programmed photo-typesetting machines. A light flashing through a spinning cellulose “font“ registers the letters on photographic paper at 30 lines per minute based on 8': point type. 11 em line. If any mistakes occur on the tapes when they are punched, new tapes are typed and a corrected version of the photographic paper is pasted over the error. mat roller. which applied a ton oi pressure. This mat was used to make another metal mould to go directly onto a press. Shop Foreman Norm Stunden. employed at The Liberal since 1947. puts together the last page of the paper to be composed of hot metal type. “Now we have clean air allthe time," said veteran operator, Harvey Marks. In the old shop he worked primarily with the Ludlow. but now he “marks up ads" â€" which involves deciding on the proper style and size of type to be used in advertisements. Fumes from the molten metal used in the old shop. made it a smelly placefitorwor‘k. Another veteran linotype operator. Ed Lloyd, now sets ads and headlines on a headliner machine. As on the Compugraphic, the headlines come out on long strips of photographic paper. Where formerly his efforts were set into the iron page forms, the paper headlines Ed now turns out are processed chemically, dried, waxed and pasted on a cardboard layout sheet. To be reproduced in printer‘s ink. photographs must first be screened â€" or broken down into small dots â€"â€" in the Banner dark room. These screened versions of the photographs are then waxed and pasted on the layout sheets with the stories. headlines and advertisements. At Newsweb Enterprises in Willowdale, the layout sheets are then photographed again and a full-sized negative is used to make metal plates for the presses. The basement at The Liberal offices is not the same without the old machines. Even the mice have been cleared out, as the basement area is about to be changed into a news room and cir- culation offices. Although it‘s still dark and gloomy down there, the editorial department is hoping to shed a little light when it moves in. Both machines are small and compact, fast