Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!tfd!afp!gna!axis-design!john From: john@gna.axis-design.fr (John Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Economist article on Ecotype typeface design Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 09:15:13 GMT References: <4lsh!qd@rpi.edu> <1991Jun7.152116.15777@slhisc.uucp> <1991Jun09.151311.5596@dircon.co.uk> Sender: john@gna.axis-design.fr (John Hughes) Organization: A misspelling of Organisation Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: uad1077@dircon.co.uk's message of 9 Jun 91 15: 13:11 GMT In article <1991Jun09.151311.5596@dircon.co.uk> uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish) writes: I expect they are used to people faxing individual articles to each other. You know and I know that telling someone to buy a copy is cheaper than faxing an article, but this is a *business*person's journal:-). Apart from anything else, even if they were faxing copy internally, they *surely* wouldn't be doing it with finished proffs would they? I think you assume they mean group 3 fax when they say "fax". I'm pretty sure this is not the case. There are special "fax" systems sold for newspapers that have >1000dpi resolution & use very fancy compression algorithms and high speed digital lines. These are used to make the "negatives" (sorry, don't know correct term) at the remote printing sites and no typesetting is done outside the main site. Why do they do this? Well, in the case I know about (the International Herald Tribune) it's because they put all this stuff in long before PostScript was invented and they can' afford to replace it yet. John