On Feb 28, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote: > I doubt it was typeset by manually assembling types. At the time, my > bet would > be on photo-typeset (i.e. using specialized machines doing a somewhat > cruder > version of what computers are now doing: making films for offset > printers) > or perhaps hot metal (a 19th century techniques whose machines stopped > being manufactured > mid 80's if I'm not mistaken). > > Laser printers BTW is an early 70's technology. > > Yours,
You'd be wrong. In 1982 when Magician was published, publishers were still resistant to anything non-traditonal. Doubleday owned their own printing plants in Garden City, NY, millions of dollars of installed infrastructure and they were change adverse. Magician had custom type fonts designed by some art director and book designer, and was set by linotype machine (manually, but not slugging type into a type frame from a California job case). We started sending discs (4.5" floppies) about the time we were doing Prince of the Blood, and didn't get to e-mailing text files until about Shadow of a Dark Queen. Best, R.E.F. ===== www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
