Allison Nolden
Chapter 7: Typographic Technology
Chapter seven covers the transformation of typographic
technology. It states that the invention
of typography has been called the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The chapter begins with hand composition and
covers everything up to the technology we have today. I didn’t realize that there were so many
different steps to get to the technology we have today and I am grateful for
today’s advances. I would like to
someday try hand typesetting though. I
think it would be an awesome experience and would make me appreciate modern
technology even more. Also, I think that
it would help me in my future designs. I
liked reading about the middle forms of typesetting, after hand composition and
before today’s technology. Before reading
this I had known a little about hand typesetting and linotype but I really knew
nothing about Ludlow, display phototypesetting, or scanner and laser
systems. Display phototypesetting sounds
very cool to me because I like to experiment with film but it sounds like it
would be very hard to learn how to do. I
thought reading about the scanner and laser systems was interesting because I
use them a lot but never really knew what was happening when I was. When reading this chapter I thought that I
really take for granted the technology we have today because I never think
about how it really works, I just use it.
I chose this image from the internet to accompany my
response to chapter seven. It is a
phototypesetting unit.
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