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Hah! I worked for a small town newspaper in NH at the same time and we did the same exact thing. My college newspaper as well. The laser printers at the time ju
by russellbeattie 9y ago
Hah! I worked for a small town newspaper in NH at the same time and we did the same exact thing. My college newspaper as well. The laser printers at the time just weren't good enough for photos (probably the scanners and storage as well), so those were processed by a different machine and stuck on at the last minute. These were the days of QuarkXPress and having souped up Mac LEs plugged into massive black and white monitors for layout. A single change in a classified ad could take a minute or two to repaginate.
- URSpider94 9y agoThe main difference being that we didn’t use Quark for layout, we used MacWrite, I think, and would literally size our articles to 1-, 2- or 3-column width and then print them as one continuous column. We did all of our layout by hand instead of in the computer, so we’d cut up the paper and flow the columns into the layout on the board. Quark definitely existed by then (I had used PageMaker at my high school newspaper to do the same task in years before). I think the paper stayed with manual layout because it would let a group of us collaborate on laying out the 5-10 editorial pages over a period of an hour or two.