Maryland Comp A Survival Story --Waldman

Skills Needed

Although automation at that time is not what we think of today, it required highly skilled mark-up and make-up people. Even as desktop publishing was obsolescing traditional advertising typographers, the book typographer who had systems and personnel skilled in doing specialized titles still prospered—simply because of the complexity of the task. But progress and time caught up to even this niche and, by the mid-'90s, failures were becoming everyday events.