REVOLUTION IN NEWSPAPER PRODUCTION.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10894, 20 April 1898, Page 2

REVOLUTION IN NEWSPAPER PRODUCTION.

THE LINOTYPE OUTDONE. (B* TELE3RAPH.) Wellington, Taeaday. At a meeting of the Wellington Typographical Union the prealdenr, Mr Vdnghan, «atd that during the last lew yean machinery lor type setting had reoelved mnoh acttn;lon la America .and England, and many kinds of type Betting maoblnei were now in tbe market. Xhongh the Hooky pc was firit In the field In the AnstralsßlaD colonies It was by no meem certain In wa» tbe beit, for a Loc< don lithographer earned Sohnmann, la oonjaootlaa w(oh a cote Yankee "corop." had in hand a machine wbloh promised to ontdo anything yet invented in the way of newapaper production. Both the lino* type and tbe monotype prodnoed anrfac.es in relief) bad tbe new invention ol Schumann was in advance of the lithographic art by wblob printing was done from a amooth surface. The matter was find mitten by a typewriter and then tranaferred to a zloo plate. Tdlb plate was bent round a fast.iunnlng web Utho maobloe, and the newspaper was then printed off at a i peed equal to that of typographical machines, The new prooeaa admitted of drawings and aketobes belog piodnced with a greater ipefid, saving the labor of engraving and stereo« typing, and ie praotsoilly abut np tbe oompoßing room, with ita expensive plant and numerous workmen. Tbe prealdent suggested that members of the union sbonld aelza any opportunity that might offer of changing their occupation, and aald newspaper proprietors wonld probably aot wiiely in delaylog expenditure on ooatly maehlnea that might ere loogbe replaoed by more advanoed methods.