Posts Tagged ‘Typesetting’

In times in which the economy does a slump (and boy is it slumping) it is almost time to sit and reestablish what we, as American’s, find wholesome, strong and pure. After years in many types of industries, and as an entrepreneur, I find myself and the staff of ProTypists actually doing more business with those that we know, like and trust. However, there is a common denominator in all that we seem to be drawn to.

American businesses are what holds this country together and in these hard economically hard times seems more important than ever. Offering word-of-mouth advertising, referrals and support to those that we do business with locally, statewide and even nationwide  inevitably provides us with the network that ultimately guides those businesses to corporations and strong financial feeders of our communities.

We here at ProTypists are one of the few that can stand by and state that our business and our clients are Americans, and even though we offer our services overseas, we rarely see them consult us on their projects. I believe most of it is due to the outsourcing that can be done in other smaller countries for pennies on the dollar, and we are not chastising the ability to motivate those in countries in need, but as American’s, we like to know that we are contributing to re-stimulating what financial slump, we have found ourselves in by staying and doing business within our boundaries and supporting those smaller businesses that just need that little bit of a boot in the right direction.

We would like to thank all of you who have sent referrals, support and constant business our direction, and we hope to provide the same in return. Keep watch for special pricing structures for our clients for referrals. We will continue to provide quality transcription, typesetting, and even design elements for all of you who are in need.

Our writer and leader has been away for several days now giving our update area a vast gap in what you normally see as excellent writing and information.

She has asked us to update this and give thanks to those that have sent their well wishes and support in her trying times and hopes that she will return soon.

Meanwhile, please feel free to contact us for your transcription, typesetting and other needs as we are still pumping out quality and professional transcription services.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Printing and printing processes over the years have come along way.  Today’s technology makes things more efficient, faster and easier for those who wish to accomplish the task of printing magazines, newspapers and more, but it hasn’t always been such a simple task.

Wood blocks were the original innovation. Pages of books were carved into them and then in turn those ‘plates’ were used to produce multiple copies of that item.

With the knowledge of metal and it’s qualities, metal came into play around the middle of the 15th Century.  Every heard of Guetenberg’s Bible?  This was one of the first publications produced from Guetenberg’s invention of the movable blocks of typeface that produced a more efficient page being able to utilize that one particular letter in more than one place producing a vast number of combinations. Boxes were laid out with blank typeface blocks used for spaces and once completed you saw a reverse image of what was to be printed.

Years later, machines took over giving mass production a whole new look.  Machines, similar to a typewriter, would inlay a type in which a mold was manufactured.  This  later involved a Teletype writer punched tape which could be used with the Linotypesetter which eliminated the need for human involvement in typesetting the lines by hand.

Photo-mechanical composition moved the mechanical era up a notch providing the use of one drum to produce a multiple element in sizes of type.  As the drum spun, flashes of light located a particular character and placed it it’s desired place at which point the drum then moved to the next line to get the desired typeset story.

In the early 1960′s, Cathode Ray Tube typesetting made the technology world peek it’s head in to see what was possible.  Using codes for the type, size and placement of the text making this the first attempt at computerizing the information to typeset printed matter.  Machines of this time were as large as a bedroom and sometimes it took more than one of these machines to hold just a small bit of data only to place it on magnetic strip for later use. Justification, leading, hyphenation also become a variable that we could start to play with.

As technology progressed and laser’s were shrunk to fit into laser printers, photocopiers and fax machines, we have found what we have today in hundreds of thousands of offices all over the world.  Giving even more variables such as printing photographs, utilizing foreign fonts and of course, producing crisp and readable elements at any size.

Because of the advancements in technology, equipment, materials and knowledge of the typesetter, papers that took days to do in wood block probably now only take minutes giving you the client the ability to make changes and give us, the typesetter versatility and speed.

In order to celebrate our country, our independence, our freedom and our right to pursue happiness, we are offering a special of 25% off of any transcribing or typesetting project filed with us during the next 7 days!

That means, through this weekend, through Friday of next week (July 10, 2010) we will give anyone who files a transcribing job an automatic 25% off of our services.

(Offer not valid on graphic design or web design services).

Happy 4th of July America!

We have decided to open up this update session for our readers who have questions about services that we provide.  Even if you are not a current client, or utilize another service, we are open to taking questions or thoughts about transcribing services, typesetting, graphics, virtual administration services, web design, Internet marketing or proof reading.

We welcome and are open to addressing these concerns and questions because if you have them, ultimately you are probably not the only one.

Just click “Comments” below and drop us a line!