Infobox Defunct Company company name Compugraphic Corporation company logo company slogan fate Acquired by Agfa Gevaert successor Agfa Gevaert foundation 1960 defunct 1988 location industry Phototypesetting key people William Garth Jr. products num employees Compugraphic Corporation was an United States American producer of typesetting systems and phototypesetting equipment, based, at the time of the Agfa merger, in Wilmington, Massachusetts, just a few miles from where it was founded. This company is not to be confused with Compugraphics ref http www.cgi.co.uk Compugraphics photomask solutions ... Linotype Company Mergenthaler , Compugraphic was at the vanguard of what was then considered ... manufactured by Compugraphic, typography for magazines, newspapers and advertising was set ... type. When Compugraphic machines and their counterparts came to market, it represented a dramatic leap ... that was developed for them by Adobe Systems Adobe , Aldus , and others. Compugraphic was founded ... upright freezer, and sold to publishers of telephone books. In 1963, Compugraphic moved to Reading ... was based entirely on hot metal typesetting hot metal type . In the late 1960s, Compugraphic ..., Compugraphic continually included new technology such as larger CRT monitors, floppy disk storage ... the success of the EditWriter, Compugraphic introduced the Modular Composition System, known as the MCS ... or warp. br Compugraphic also offered a version of CP 86 runnable on the MCS hardware, along with WordStar .... developed a hardware and software interface that allowed Compugraphic phototypesetting machines to connect to personal computers such as the Apple II ref Compugraphic to Macintosh Solutions, http support.apple.com ... of hinted scaling computer fonts, was granted to Thomas B. Hawkins of Compugraphic. In the trading quarter to September 30, 1987, Compugraphic reported revenue of some 92 million ref http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9D04E0D7123BF931A35752C1A961948260 COMPUGRAPHIC CORP reports earnings ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2008 Intellifont was a scalable Typeface font technology developed by Tom Hawkins at Compugraphic in Wilmington, Massachusetts during the late 1980s, the patent for which was granted to Hawkins in 1987. Intellifont fonts were Font hinting hinted on a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX Mainframe computer mainframe computer using Ikarus software Ikarus software . In 1990, printer and computing system manufacturer Hewlett Packard adopted Intellifont scaling as part of its Printer Command Language PCL 5 printer control protocol, and Intellifont technology was shipped with HP HP LaserJet LaserJet III and IV printers. Intellifont technology became part of Agfa Gevaert Agfa Gevaert s Universal Font Scaling Technology UFST , which allows Original equipment manufacturer OEM s to produce printers capable of printing on either the Adobe systems PostScript or HP PCL language. External links cite web url http typophile.com node 17387? title Typophile Intellifont accessdate 2007 12 09 See also Printer Command Language PCL Category Typesetting Category Digital typography Category Font formats Category Wilmington, Massachusetts ... more details
Infobox font name image style Serif classifications Antiqua typeface class Old Style , Display releasedate 1907 creator Georg Belwe foundry J.G. Schelter & Giesecke based on aka Belwe Roman is a display typeface designed by Georg Belwe in 1907. The type has Antiqua typeface class Old Style quialities, but short ascenders and very short descenders. Foundry Type Belwe Roman was originally cast by the J.G. Schelter & Giesecke Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry in text, medium bold, and bold weights. An inline verson was cast as well. ref Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson, The Encyclopedia of Type Faces, Blandford Press Lts., 1983, ISBN 0 7137 1347 X, p. 19. ref Cold Type Copies Belwe Roman was revived in Phototypesetting Cold Type versions by Compugraphic as Belwe typeface Belwe . It was popular enough for all four original weights and styles to be reissued. ref Provan, Archie, and Alexander S. Lawson, 100 Type Histories volume 1 , National Composition Association, Arlington, Virginia, 1983 p. 24. ref Digital Copies A digital version, also simply called Belwe , was released in 1989 by International Typeface Corporation ITC . Another version, Belwe EF is made by Elsner Flake . References reflist Category typefaces Category letterpress typefaces ... more details
. Compugraphic produced phototypesetting machines in the 1970s made it economically feasible for a number of small publications to set their own type professionally. One model, the Compugraphic ... point. The Compugraphic EditWriter series took the Compuwriter IV configuration and added floppy disk ... visually and thus retain complete control over kerning . Compugraphic s model 7200 used the strobe ... range of point sizes by eliminating film media and lenses. The Compugraphic MCS Modular Composition ... systems the other was also a Compugraphic machine, the 8600 that was able to output camera ready ... equipped with it the capability to connect to phototypesetting machines. ref Compugraphic to Macintosh ... Ventura Publisher to be used as a front end and wrote a Compugraphic MCS disk with typesetting codes ... more details
MGD Graphic Systems , Itek Varityper Franklin Compugraphic Pittsburgh Singer Corporation Graphic ... 11. ref Cold Type Copies Alternate Gothic was copied by Compugraphic as Alpin Gothic. ref Wheatley ... , Berthold , Compugraphic , Dymo , Harris , Rockwell International MGD Graphic Systems , Monotype ... more details
coord 39 11 15.52 N 96 34 53.47 W region US display title Other uses The Collegian disambiguation The Collegian Infobox Newspaper name Kansas State Collegian image caption type Student newspaper format broadsheet foundation 1896 ceased publication price owners Student Publications Incorporated publisher editor chiefeditor assoceditor maneditor staff language circulation headquarters Manhattan, Kansas sister newspapers oclc 9453357 ISSN website http www.kstatecollegian.com The Kansas State Collegian is the official daily student run newspaper of Kansas State University . Founded in 1896, the Collegian is the eighth largest daily publication in the state of Kansas with a circulation of 10,000. History The inaugural edition of the student newspaper at K State, then known as the Students Herald , was published in 1896. The school became the first college or university in the United States to offer a four year course in printing in 1910 with its industrial journalism curriculum. During World War II, the paper was reduced from a broadsheet to a tabloid newspaper format tabloid and was published once a week on the campus press. In 1946, the paper returned to its former size and was published on the presses of the Manhattan Mercury Chronicle . The frequency and size of the paper changed again in 1949, when a Cox O Type press was installed in the basement of Kedzie Hall and the Collegian went from a semi weekly broadsheet to a daily tabloid sized publication. In 1966, a 50,000 Cottrell web offset press was installed. Kansas State acquired the first computerized editing equipment in a Kansas newsroom and among the first four in a U.S. university in 1972, when student publications direction Bill Brown persuaded the board to purchase two Hendrix editing display terminals. An upgrade to punched tape typesetting equipment followed in 1982 with the installation of a Compugraphic Trendsetter. Another Trendsetter was added in 1983 and the Collegian changed to broadsheet format. Lase ... more details
Infobox font name Souvenir style Serif image releasedate September 1914 creator Morris Fuller Benton br foundry American Type Founders br Souvenir is an old style serif typeface , designed in 1914 by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders . It was loosely based on Schelter Antiqua, a 1905 Art Nouveau type issued by the J.G. Schelter & Giesecke foundry in Leipsig . It has a much softer look than other old style faces, with a generally light look, rounded serifs, and very little contrast between thick and thin strokes. ref Cost, Patricia A., The Bentons How an American Father and Son Changed the Printing Industry, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester, New York, 2011, ISBN 978 1 933360 42 3, p. 220 223. ref At the time of its issue it achieved only a moderate popularity and was known as the printer s friend because of its forgiving qualities on press. Cold Type Copies In 1967 Ed Benguiat licensed the design from ATF and re drew the face for the Photo Lettering Photo Lettering Corporation . When the International Typeface Corporation ITC was formed in 1971 it not only issued this design as ITC Souvenir but hired Benguiat to draw additional weights. It was the bold and demi bold weights that subsequently achieved an ubiquitous popularity leading to its being was made available for photocomposition by all the leading producers under the name Souvenir by Alphatype , Berthold company Berthold , Compugraphic , Dymo , Harris Corporation Harris , Star Photon , Mergenthaler , Monotype , Itek Varityper , while it was called Sovran by Singer Corporation Graphic Systems Inc. ref Alexander S. Lawson Lawson, Alexander , Archie Provan, and Frank Romano, Primer Metal Typeface Identification, Printing Industries of America National Composition Association , Arlington, Virginia, 1976, pp. 34 35. ref Hot Metal Copies The sudden popularity of this face in the 1970s led to the creation of Mergenthaler Linotype Company Linotype matrices in two weights by Matrotype . This is perha ... more details
Ikarus is a type design and production software developed by URW company URW foundry, for converting existing typeface s and logos into digital format for use on computer driven printing, plotting and sign cutting devices. It was licensed by major foundries such as Agfa Compugraphic, Autologic, Berthold, ITC International Typeface Corporation , Letraset , Linotype, Monotype, Stempel, and others. Its IK format was convertible into diverse vendor representations, including Type3 and Type1 PostScript formats as well as the TrueType format by Apple and Microsoft. Ikarus uses a spline dn date February 2012 model of the outline shape of each character computing character within a typeface to give a fully scalable representation. The curve segments are essentially circle arcs, with tangent continuity maintained at joins. It is a very simple format to manually mark up. Being a vector curve based format, any rendering resolution can be attained by rasterisation with equal accuracy from one relatively small set of data. The Ikarus coordinates for a shape all fall on the outline of that shape as opposed to B zier curve s where control points can be inside or outside the outline . The functionality of Ikarus can be expanded using plug ins. History Originally invented by URW employee Dr Peter Karow , Ikarus German spelling of the mythical figure Icarus mythology Icarus got its name from the frequency with which it crashed in the early days of its development. It was designed to run on minicomputer s such as DEC VAX and later adapted to microcomputer s as they became increasingly powerful. In 1975, IKARUS was introduced at ATypI in Warsaw. ref http www.urwpp.de english divers ueberurw cont.html About URW ref By the 1980s a huge library of typefaces and logos existed as photographic film and needed to be input into computers for the latest generation of printing and sign making devices. Unfortunately, normal Image scanning scanning gives a rasterized shape at the resolution of the ... more details
Infobox font name ITC Avant Garde style Sans serif classifications Grotesque sans serif Neo grotesque sans serif image avantgardelogo.jpg framed right Avant Garde logogram featuring typeface of the same name. Designed by Herb Lubalin . based on releasedate 1970 1977 creator Herb Lubalin , Tom Carnase foundry International Typeface Corporation foundries variations sample ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a font family based on the logo font used in the Avant Garde magazine Avant Garde magazine. Herb Lubalin devised the logo concept and its companion headline typeface, then he and Tom Carnase, a partner in Lubalin s design firm, worked together to transform the idea into a full fledged typeface. The condensed fonts were drawn by Ed Benguiat in 1974, and the obliques were designed by Andr G rtler , Erich Gschwind and Christian Mengelt in 1977. The original designs include one version for setting headlines and one for text copy. However, in the initial digitization, only the text design was chosen, and the ligatures and alternate characters were not included. The font family consists of 5 weights 4 for condensed , with complementary obliques for widest width fonts. When ITC released the OpenType version of the font, the original 33 alternate characters and ligatures, plus extra characters were included. Elsner Flake also issued the ligatures and alternate characters separately as Avant Garde Gothic Alternate. Cold Type versions ITC Avant Garde was never cast into actual foundry type, appearing first only in cold type . Alphatype , Information International, Inc. Autologic , Berthold company Berthold , Compugraphic , Dymo , Star Photon , Harris Corporation Harris , Mergenthaler , MGD Graphic Systems , and Itek Varityper all sold the face under the name Avant Garde, while Singer Corporation Graphic Systems Inc. offered the face as Suave. ref Alexander S. Lawson Lawson, Alexander , Archie Provan, and Frank Romano, Primer Metal Typeface Identification, Printing Industries of Ameri ... more details
, Monotype , Varityper . Century X Alphatype Century Light Compugraphic Censtar Expanded Star ... Graphic Systems . Century Text Alphatype Century Textbook Compugraphic Censtar School Star Photon ... more details
machines such as the Compugraphic Compuwriter and CompEdit, and Varityper EPICS, Comp Set and Comp ... Aldus Corporation accessdate 18 September 2010 ref ref cite web title Compugraphic to Macintosh ... more details
Infobox font name style Sans serif image EurostileSpec.svg based on Microgramma releasedate 1962 creator Aldo Novarese foundry Nebiolo Printech Nebiolo foundries Mergenthaler Linotype Company Linotype , Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber URW variations Microgramma br Microstyle sample The Eurostile typeface type font style is a geometric sans serif typeface designed by Aldo Novarese in 1962. Novarese originally made Eurostile for one of the best known Italian Type foundry foundries , Nebiolo Printech Nebiolo , in Turin . Novarese developed Eurostile because although the similar Microgramma , which he had also designed, came with a variety of weights, it had only Capital letter upper case letters. A decade after he had designed Microgramma, Novarese remedied this flaw with his design of Eurostile, which added Lower case lower case letters, a bold condensed variant, and an ultra narrow design he called Eurostile Compact, for a total of seven fonts. Characteristics Eurostile is a popular display font. Its linear nature suggests modern architecture , with an appeal both technical and functional. The squarish shapes with their rounded corners evoke the appearance of television screens of the 1950s and 1960s. As such, it has found some popularity in contemporary graphic design , as well as in science fiction novel and film artwork. Foundry Type Introduced by Nebiolo Printech Nebiolo in 1962. Cold Type Copies The popularity of Eurostile continued strong right in the Phototypesetting cold type era, and it was offered by various manufacturers under the following names ref W.F. Wheatley, Typeface Analogue, Printing Industries of America National Composition Association , Arlington, Virginia, 1988, p. 8. pp. 34 35. ref Aldostyle Information International, Inc. Autologic Eurogothic Alphatype Eurostyle Compugraphic Waltham Star Photon Gamma Information International, Inc. III Digital Versions URW version In the URW version, there are also Greek, Cyrillic, subscript and superscript ... more details
Linotype machine s. It was developed under contract to Compugraphic , who manufactured phototypesetting phototypesetters . Compugraphic retained the rights to manufacture the Linasec without royalty ... more details
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