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Subject: local newspaper being typeset on LaserWriter
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 19:19:23 EDT
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From: phr%ucbernie@Berkeley (Paul Rubin)

A new left-wing newspaper called the Berkeley Mirror showed up on the
UCB campus a few days ago.  It says that the body type is done completely
on a LaserWriter, and some of the headlines and other stuff too.  Some
of the headlines look really crappy, almost as if they were done on
a cheap dot-matrix printer using the normal Mac fonts, but the rest look
okay.  The body type is extremely crisp and clear, but the intercharacter
spacing is uneven and sloppy-looking.  This is probably as much the
fault of the formatting software as the fonts themselves.  The fonts,
in my opinion, look okay but not great.  Because the type is so clear,
I suspect that the people at the newspaper did their laser typesetting
in a very large point size and the photo-reduced it somehow.  That
would be supported by earlier claims on this list that the Postscript
software in the Laserwriter does well at "normal" sizes (10, 12, etc.)
but loses when the characters have to be scaled up or down by very
much.

Aside: some of the local photocopy places have started also making
Laserwriter time available.  I think it's a neat idea because they
have just about exactly the right kind of experience in dealing with
that kind of equipment (capital and operational requirements), and they
are accessible to the masses.  You put your flyer (article, termpaper,
etc) together on your Macintosh, then pop your disk into their Mac
and get typeset copy a few seconds later.  One place (Krishna Copy
at University & Shattuck in Berkeley, but this is not an ad) charges
$.30 a page plus $10 an hour if you need to do editing, which seems
reasonable to me.  Another (Cleo's) has a more complicated pricing
scheme where the minimum charge is something like $4.00 but then
they'll make a certain number of free xerox copies for you.  I
hope this kind of service spreads.