On 1/10/2013 5:21 AM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote:
Le 10/01/2013 11:08, Otto Stolz a écrit :
Hello,
le 09/01/2013 18:07, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit :
Yes, but I actually don't know. I'd really like to have some idea on
those old
printing techniques, but I fear we're drifting to off topic subjects...
Am 2013-01-09 um 18:16 schrieb Frédéric Grosshans:
Actually, the preceding tool combined with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph would be my best
(uninformed) guess.
I’d rather guess, he used this technique:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_transfer>.
I have used it myself, in the 70s, to insert all those
Greek symbols into the formulae in my Dipl.-Phys. thesis.
It renders much clearer glyphs than the mimeograph
technique.
I don't think so, because it is a 'real book' (
http://books.google.fr/books/about/La_th%C3%A9orie_des_particules_de_spin_1_2.html?id=3qzvAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
), which was printed in enough exemplars to be available 6 decades
later in several libraries and on sale on internet for a reasonable price.
The Dry_transfer technique do not seem adapted to such publication.
One would apply the dry transfer to the original typescript. The book
itself would then be printed by some photo-mechanical means (e.g. PMT).
I was involved in some print publication in the early eighties where the
original was created using a variation of a photo-typesetting machine
which, however, just created a single column of text. The output from
that was pasted up (together with graphics) and then then tranferred
photo-mechanically onto a drum for offset printing.
Something analogous could easily have been done to a high quality
typescript with LetraSet for the special characters. The fact that the
"book" uses a typewriter-like font for the running text seems to hint at
that. (Some later typewriter ribbons used a technique similar to the dry
transfer, and unlike the "inked" ribbon for which early typewriters are
known)
I don't remember ever learning the proper terms for all of these things,
but it should be easy to find those buried in Wikipedia somewhere.
A./
Frédéric
