C&ENL: a progress report

Abstract

This page and some of the other pages in this issue of Chemical & Engineering News have been produced using the magazine's new electronic copy handling and typesetting system. With this approach copy is written, edited, hyphenated and justified, and accurately sized on video display terminals at the magazine's Washington, D.C., headquarters. The final, corrected copy then is transmitted via telephone lines to the printer—Mack Printing Co. in Easton, Pa.— where it is set automatically in type on a photocomposition device. The system is in the shakedown phase. It soon will be extended to essentially all staff members, including those in C&EN's news bureaus in New York, Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco. When fully operational it will streamline the magazine's editorial operations greatly—saving time and money, allowing for later release of copy, and eliminating some potentially error-producing steps. For the first time, copy from the inception of a story to the final printed page will ...