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OUR special congratulations are due to the editor and publishers of this ever-welcome annual that, after an interval of three years, they have been able to resume its issue. The editor, as usual, in his “Foreword” reviews the recent advances and the present condition of the reproductive graphic arts. In the circumstances one could scarcely expect anything strikingly new, but we are told that one bright and hopeful feature of the present is that work is now being adequately paid for, and that as a consequence employers are able to give satisfying wages as well as to improve their plants. Photo-lithography is coming more and more into use. Collotype is “coming into its own again, thanks to the absence of German competition.” The collotype work now being done in this country is of excellent quality, and probably greater in quantity than ever before. Half-tone and three-colour work stand pretty much where they were before the war, while rotary photogravure is coming increasingly to the front for newspaper and periodical work. It is now quite practicable to print both text and illustrations together by this last process, and there are signs that before very long type-setting may be rendered unnecessary. Two American journals have already been pro duced without the aid of the compositor. The volume contains articles from the pens of many contributors, and is very rich in illustrations of all kinds.
Penrose's Annual.
William
Gamble
Vol. xxii. of "The Process Year Book." Edited by. Pp. x + 112 + plates. (London: Percy Lund, Humphries, and Co., Ltd., 1920.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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J., C. Penrose's Annual . Nature 104, 690 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104690a0
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