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KLAUS F. SCHMIdT Advertising and printing industry in the USA
HERBERT CLANDON Eric Gill – his life and work
KURT KOHLHAMMER “Starlettograph” – ideal for a new filmsetting device
DR. WERNER P. HEYD Numbers – numbers (I)
WERNER WOLF Quality control in the machine composing room
R. REMMERT “3-M”-Makeready for newspaper plates and flat and curved electros
DR. MARTIN HARTMANN Ghosting and yellowing
G. DYRSSEN Handling paper in reels
ADOLF GöTZ The image angle
KURT KOHLHAMMER The nylon block
WALTER GIEBITZ Around the Linotype matrix
C. F. PADBERG – The Plantin-Moretus printing house in Antwerp (1550-1876)
THE SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS
Printer’s publicity
Bauer Folio Grotesque
Technical supplement 3b / 1961 “Efficient forme makeready II”
Reproduction and printing supplement 4/1961 – “Screened plates for letterpress”

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Der Druckspiegel, 05, May 1961
Der Druckspiegel, 05, May 1961
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The first American university to accept graphic designers as members of the faculty was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, called M. I. T, for short. The work created by the design group reflects the high level of instruction, the realistic setting of the training and the progressive philosophy of this institute.

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