Show New system replaces w 1 old at Express office Computer typesetting isn't new at the Vernal Express but the new Com Com- system has totally up- up updated updated dated the old system The new modular composition system installed this month included four video terminals which are inter inter- phased with typesetters capable of prin- prin printing printing ting up to newspaper lines of type a minute Because the new system Is en- en entirely entirely modular components can be plugged in or plugged out making way for modern updates The typesetter allows the operator to mix up to 16 typefaces in sizes from froman froman an eighth of an inch to an inch high The typesetter sets digitized type on photographic paper which Is developed and pasted up to form the newspaper With the new system over 60 can be programmed into the typesetter A smaller typesetter is being used as a backup system As the old system is phased out and the new modular system Is completely online the new type styles will replace the old The four video terminals of the new system are shared between the typeset typeset- typesetting typesetting ting and advertising departments An accessory in the advertising department is is a which allows the operator to see exactly how the ad will look before it is printed by the typesetter Copy typed into the computer is stored on two dual disk drives each holding up to and files mes per disk On the video terminal the computer automatically hyphenates words and measures each line length The operator can go back and make corrections on the screen and the computer will adjust the lines for inserting words lines or paragraphs Optional automatic ruling software allows the operator to create vertical and horizontal rules boxes and matrices i and to set the text copy in position position tion along with the rules Also type styles can be expanded condensed or slanted I at will 7 k 1 I I tt R I Ik r I I 1 IJ I f I I oil oilI 1 I r f L 1 1 Hi 1 tL- tL R 0 e J J j TYPESETTER OPERATOR Jeff Carpenter types an advertisement into the computer which is seen on n a rev e r right ight exactly as it will ap- ap appear appear pear in print gyp n n H ky P PY Pir Y ir irA A Ar r j ice 4 r j NEW MODULAR TYPESETTING equipment is the Vernal Express The new equipment was in- in replacing old equipment and facilitating work at stalled this month dents dent's name for the purchase of energy obtained by contacting Marilyn Mann Mann- curriculum materials All entrants will ing Southern Division Office 51 Truth Is within ourselves receive a tee shirt and certificate of East main American Fork Utah Robert Browning participation Entry forms and contest rules can be |