Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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v L - x , .- ,,,. , ,., I' 7 x-.x X N54 YESTERDAY n i TODAY I Plates by courtesy of Sprague Electric Wnrksfof General Electric Company

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John Gutenberg in --- -- --4:1-v l'- rib?- 1- ,Q lt 'e'aSv'i?-'..Qe-ff' I . -,A ,fn --up It ,,g,xL:f!f1i-Y l g ---. I .-. -L Fiqh: f Hlffag NL ,, .. 'fftvt'-V .Z:LT:,,: J: ,',. Z. afvxfizjr f. -.J f-it 5:25-1.5 R -. azz f't---srw fn iff' 1 I fi ec 'T THE .' RED '. AND BLACK RINTING, which is the art of impressing upon paper or other substance the character of the letter coated with ink, was invented by 1438. It was not until 145-1 or 1455 that a book was published. Gutenberg and his scribe, S-ehoeffer, overcame enormous diffi- culties when they first attempted to pri11t. They had to invent an ink thick enough to stick to the type, a press in which to print the page., and a scheme by which the type could he fastened in the press. And even with this crude, cumbersome equip- ment it took years to pub- lish their iirst book. Since that time print- ing has undergone ,some changes in the machinery, and the efficiency is much greater in consequenceg but the basic principle of types coated with i11k be- Tl-IE ART OF PRINTING ' By Ralph Bording 5165 f on tlzid L sv, cfgli- I Amir! XAWJH 1' tim i ru 1 read, in advertising, in the newspapers, in nearly everything which is done in the business, social, 01' scientific world. To Schoeffer is given the credit of cut- ting the first type. The punch was made first, and from this the matrix. The matrix was placed in the mold face down and molten metal pou1'ed into the mold. For making type this method is still used. Black letter was the first face cut, of which the German type is the direct descendant. lt was Jen- sen that first made a suc- cess of the Roman letter which is now used every- where except ill Germany. Some of the type-founders who have left their mark on type fashions are Van Dyke, Elzevir, a11d the English founder, Caslon. Benjamin Franklin was the iirst type-founder in America. . .lm-K-f .- -- - -fr- ing impressed on paper has remained. For the last hundred years men have put their i .xr lo -T l -l 'I I' ' . A ,N Q Q? If -f., ' 4.12 Nl-tix A ' .I lit X . I .... gin .D X N, , 1 ... '5 l The printing industry of today is divided into a number of special trades and artsy type, presses, paper, and ink By courlesy being made by manufacturers specially equipped. The 1'eal printer, be he in the smallest job office, or in the largest news- paper plant, is the man who takes the component parts, and, putting them to- gether, gives the result which people energies to work on a ma- chine which would set typc. It was and is still set from the case, but the labor and time necessary to setting up a large number of The American Printer. pages is very costly. - ' A number of machines, more or' less imperfect, were invented, but none of them proved to he a lasting success. Mark Twain put a half million dollars into a Tlzirteen .41 'N

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,.v . - .. x Q- fry-l. PLC--'li,gv ' .47- Q 03 Vx fi? S- f'! I - v .., Q -- ,,, -I I I pg W -Sf' .E-2.t 'r:a-Q'. '::f1T -f .1- . ' .. 5,1 ffl V f - -..-17'.f..,7b N THE . RED typesetting machine which was a. real mechanical marvel, as it set, justified, and distributed perfectly. But it required, to keep it running, an amount of brains not ordinarily found in human beings. The linotype is the best machine for ordinary com- position yet in- vented. It con- sists of a maga- zine, a keyboard for controlling the magazine, an assembling slot, a mold, a pot in which to melt the metal used, and an appar- atus for distrib- uting the mat- rices. In the setting- up process the keys are pressed according to the copy until the measure is filled. The whole as- sembling' slot with the mat- rices is lifted up by the operator. T lx i s movement starts the mech- anismg every- thing else is done mechanically, with- out ,any care of the operator. The matrices are shoved over to the pot. Here they are lowered to a small mold and clamped tightly. The line is justified by means of a clever invention, the adjust- Machine Supposed to Have Been Used by Stephen Daye. Now in Possession of the Vermont Historical Society. By Courtesy of Tho Amerimn Printer. AND BLACK able .space-band. It consists of two in- clined planes and, when the line is placed in the mold, they are shoved together so as to tighten up the line in order that no Then molten type metal is pumped into the mold-, the slug is cooled, tr im in e d, and ejected to the stick, and when enough are made, the stick is taken out and dumped into a galley. The matrices, a f t c r being used, a.re lifted to the dis- tributor. E a c h kind of matrix has a separate system of nicks, and as they slide along they fall into the proper channel. Linotype mu- metal can get through. ehines are in gen- eral use in news- paper offices and in job plants. 'They are cifi- cient, economical, and, when in the hands of compe- tent operators, do v e r y high-class work. The monotype is another practical type- setting machine. It diiers radically from the linotypc in that it sets each type by itself, whereas the linotype scts a solid Fifteen