Pasadena Star-News dumps once-heralded system for automating newspaper layout.Pasadena Star-News The Pasadena Star-News is the local daily newspaper for Pasadena, California. The Star-News is a member of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. External links
The Pasadena Star-News made history in 1982 when it became the first newspaper in the world to begin using an automated system for laying out pages of the paper. The new technology was supposed to save money by cutting down both the time and the number of workers required to lay out the paper. The Star-News will make history again this year when it becomes the first newspaper to divest itself of the technology. Now under the management of Thompson Newspapers from Canada, the Star-News is scrapping its page makeup Formatting a printed page, which includes the layout of headers, footers, columns, page numbers, graphics, rules and borders. system, or "paginators," in favor of a new computer system from Sacramento-based System Integrators Incorp. Star-News Publisher Joe Blackstock said the new system, which will be fully operational this summer, allows operators to compose or "paginate pag·i·nate tr.v. pag·i·nat·ed, pag·i·nat·ing, pag·i·nates To number the pages of; page. [From Latin p " individual articles, but is not designed for full-page composition and display. That means the Star-News will go back to the old-fashioned method of pasting its pages together before sending them to the camera and printing press. Blackstock said he doesn't think full-page makeup technology has caught on as originally anticipated because its ability to pay for itself in cost savings is questionable. Whereas paste-up of newspaper pages is performed by low-priced production employees, Blackstock said pagination (1) Page numbering. (2) Laying out printed pages, which includes setting up and printing columns, rules and borders. Although pagination is used synonymously with page makeup, the term often refers to the printing of long manuscripts rather than ads and brochures. is carried out by higher-priced editorial people. The Star-News produced its first newspaper using Information International Incorp. paginators on Jan. 2, 1982. Knight-Ridder, which then owned the Star-News, used the 40,000-circulation newspaper as a relatively inexpensive testing ground Noun 1. testing ground - a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation; "the new nation is a testing ground for socioeconomic theories"; "Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American for the technology. Knight-Ridder later outfitted some of its other newspaper with pagination systems, including the Press-Telegram in Long Beach. Over the years it has hosted dozens of visitors interested in seeing the revolutionary pagination system in action. Visitors came from organizations like The Wall Street Journal and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, to foreign officials from South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , India, China and Tasmania. Cher Meyer, director of corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. for Information International Incorp. in Culver City, reported that the company's account executives said they believe the Star-News is the first buyer to abandon the technology. Blackstock said the new system will make Star-News computers compatible with those being installed at the San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. Tribune and the Whittier Daily News. Both the Tribune and Daily News are owned by Thompson. Since the advent of full-page makeup systems it has been a foregone conclusion that the publishing industry would eventually fully embrace the new technology. Nevertheless, Blackstock said Thompson decided not to outfit all three of its San Gabriel Valley papers with an updated version of the Star-News' pagination system. Blackstock said the Star-News may be able to sell the old page makeup system, even though it is antiquated by modern standards. The Press-Telegram, which uses the same type of pagination system, may buy the Star-News' equipment and use it for spare parts, he said. |
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