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A world of difference. (computerized typesetting)(Print Week 1991: January 21-26)

Crain's Cleveland Business, January, 1991 by Jurek, Ken

A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Computers have turned the typesetting world on its ear. Ernie Peto remembers the first time he saw it. It was 1976 at a graphics and printing convention in Chicago. Until that time, Mr. Peto, who then was working at Skelly Typesetting Service in downtown Cleveland, had only heard about computerized typesetters from salesmen and read about the new equipment in trade journals.

He was a type craftsmen who knew how to manipulate metal type, always reading it upside down and backwards in a labor-intensive and cumbersome process. When Mr. Peto gazed upon the new equipment, he knew he was seeing the future of typesetting. But what he certainly didn't realize then was that the computerized wonders he was viewing would take a back seat 15...

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