Vol.62/No.30 August 24, 1998
New imagesetter cuts labor in producing `Militant'
This is the first issue of the Militant to be produced
using the new digital imagesetter acquired by the print shop
that produces Pathfinder books, the Militant, and other
socialist literature. The machine makes it possible to output
the entire paper to film and produce plates for the printing
press in one hour, drastically reducing the time to produce
film and virtually eliminating hand-stripping. The
imagesetter is the first step toward a complete computer-to-
plate production system that, together with the work by some
150 volunteers to convert every Pathfinder book to digital
form, will make it possible to keep the books fighting
workers need in print, at a lower cost and with less labor.
Above, training on how to prepare Militant pages for printing
to imagesetter.
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