On Tue, 24 May 2011 22:44:58 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> Photolithography.

I'm surprised that it was practical that long ago. Photostats were well
established, probably comfortably before 1924, but they were for
quite-small runs, at most.
It wasn't by letterpress, using photoetched plates, probably copper, or
even mimeograph?

I'm out of my specialty (electronics), but it seems that offset
lithography didn't really come into its own until maybe the 1940s, or even
past-WW II. IIrc, Multilith was a significant brand name. Of course, there
have been other kinds of lithography for a long time; think lithographic
crayons and stones. Nevertheless, I'll surely take Peter's word for it.

I'd love to correspond with the newspaper, but surely not about anything
trivial. (I'd really like to obtain a single copy, as a specimen of Urdu
calligraphy!)

Is computer-typeset Urdu acceptable esthetically? I well recall when all
Urdu newspapers were handwritten.

Best regards to all,

--
Nicholas Bodley _.=|*|=._ Waltham, Mass.
who well remembers photostats and
pre-Xerox copiers