Abstract In the present system and method a photographic scanning recorder is controlled alternately by a scanning transmitter and a digital computer. The scanning transmitter scans a master page displaying material such as large headlines, pictures and advertisements. The digital computer processes story texts allocated to the remaining column spaces on the page. The computer provides column justification of its ''''raw'''' story text input, storing in its memory the coded identity and page location of each typographic character in the story text. Also stored in the computer memory are character-generating data for every typographic character that may appear in the text. The computer scans its memory electronically in accordance with the scanning operation of the photographic recorder to provide binary output signals to the recorder which cause the latter to record narrow segments of the typographic characters at the proper locations on the page. During one complete scanning of the record page in the photographic scanning recorder, both the material read from the master page in the scanning transmitter and the story texts are recorded on the record page in the recorder.
A method of making up a newspaper page comprising the steps of preparing a master copy of a newspaper page having at predetermined locations thereon material to be reproduced and having a blank space for text at other predetermined page locations, scanning the master copy along scan lines which run the extent of the page in one direction, operating a reproducing recorder to scan photographic material in synchronism with the scanning of the master copy, controlling the reproducing recorder from the scanning transmitter to reproduce the master copy material while it is being scanned by the scanning transmitter and controlling the recorder from a computer having text material stored therein to reproduce text material on the photographic film while the transmitting recorder is scanning blank spaces.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
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A method of making up a newspaper page comprising the steps of preparing a master copy of a newspaper page having at predetermined locations thereon material to be reproduced and having a blank space for text at other predetermined page locations, scanning the master copy along scan lines which run the extent of the page in one direction, operating a reproducing recorder to scan photographic material in synchronism with the scanning of the master copy, controlling the reproducing recorder from the scanning transmitter to reproduce the master copy material while it is being scanned by the scanning transmitter and controlling the recorder from a computer having text material stored therein to reproduce text material on the photographic film while the transmitting recorder is scanning blank spaces.