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PORTRAITURE BY TYPESETTING MACHINE. The specimens herewith reproduced from the pages of the British and Colonial Printer and Stationer demonstrate the versatility of typesetting machines. These portraits are produced from slugs cast on a Typograph machine in Berlin, Germany, from a series of border units providing three colorific values. The shadows are represented by a character with the full-color value; the middle-tone character is a quarter the size of this unit, while the high lights are quadded out. The copy for these portraits was prepared by F. Fuchs on quadruled paper. The squares have the same size as the border characters, making it straightforward for the operator to assemble the characters. Every line consists of three slugs, each containing forty-five units. Work of this nature has been showcased in these columns occasionally, being the product of the linotype machine. A few years back, specimens of similar work were produced from type by a Vienna printer, Carl Hasol. The term "stigmatype," or point printing, was applied to the process. This type was cast on an em body one-fourth of a brevier in size and featured four color-values or weights. It is clear that these methods hold little commercial value for illustration purposes, aside from advertising the precision of slug production.

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