By the 1980s type was set on screen (From Bucks Free Press)
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By the 1980s type was set on screen
1:29pm Monday 14th July 2003 in BFP history
A compositor sticks the separate stories, pictures and
BY the 1980s, on-line typesetters were used, enabling copy to be displayed on screens and viewed before being output onto special chemically-coated paper.
A compositor then stuck the separate stories, pictures and adverts onto a full-sized paper grid, which was a lot less messy than moving heavy lumps of metal type.
