ADVENT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY

Have you ever wondered how the pages of a newspaper are printed ?

From the days of wooden block printing, newspapers have undergone a sea change. Technological revolution has modernised the print media. For a long time, these were produced by hand composing. Later, these were replaced by monotype and linotype. In this process, a machine operated by a key board was used to compose letters. This has also become obsolete now. Typesetting in computers, offset printing and laser printing have taken over. Desktop publishing has become quite common now.

LINOTYPE

MONOTYPE

Fig 5.12: Monotype, Linotype

In earlier days, newspapers were printed only in black and white. Colour printing was not possible at that time. But now almost all the newspapers print colour pages . Some papers print colour only in supplements and special pages. Colour printing has made the pages look brighter and attractive.