http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/10/letters-copied-at-high-speed/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:59:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/10/letters-copied-at-high-speed/#comment-717733 Mike Brisendine Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:22:02 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/10/letters-copied-at-high-speed/#comment-717733 It does indeed look like a photostat process. Though xerography (xerox) replaced stats for office documents stats were still used by graphic artist until scanners came into popular use. Photostats were much sharper. Plus you could cut and paste stats and have better control of exposure and size, depending on the camera used. In my younger days I made tens of thousands of those things. You would expose the negative paper and marry it to a positive reciever through a nasty activator chemical and a simple machine with rollers. After final approval the sheets were often shot on a process camera to make a litho negative that would then be used to make plates for printing presses. It does indeed look like a photostat process. Though xerography (xerox) replaced stats for office documents stats were still used by graphic artist until scanners came into popular use. Photostats were much sharper. Plus you could cut and paste stats and have better control of exposure and size, depending on the camera used. In my younger days I made tens of thousands of those things. You would expose the negative paper and marry it to a positive reciever through a nasty activator chemical and a simple machine with rollers. After final approval the sheets were often shot on a process camera to make a litho negative that would then be used to make plates for printing presses.

]]> http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/10/letters-copied-at-high-speed/#comment-714825 Blurgle Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:00:20 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/10/letters-copied-at-high-speed/#comment-714825 Was this a photostat machine? Because the time, mess, and expense of creating photostat copies is what drove Chester Carlson to invent xerography in 1938. Was this a photostat machine? Because the time, mess, and expense of creating photostat copies is what drove Chester Carlson to invent xerography in 1938.

]]> http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/10/letters-copied-at-high-speed/#comment-714731 Stannous Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:38:39 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/10/letters-copied-at-high-speed/#comment-714731 But there's no room to put your hideous naked butt! But there’s no room to put your hideous naked butt!

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