General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

7

Total Parts

16

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Wide, dark film strip perforated along single long edge, and in centre; also bears clear opaque printed text and graphics; silver metal and dark brown synthetic end caps.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

41.1 cm

Width

6.0 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Printing

Category

Typesetting

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Compugraphic

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1970s.

Canada

Used at the Perth Courier newspaper in Perth, ON.

Function

Provides a negative image and type characters for the production of photographic positive text.

Technical

The 7200 is a keyboard operated phototypesetter for setting headlines and sub headlines on photographic paper. The machine will typeset a single, extended line of type ranging in size from 7 to 72 points and up to 120 points with the 7200 High Range. The font strips are available in two sizes, Standard and Half-size. They have two rows of characters: Lower Rail [medium, upright face] and Upper Rail [italicized or bold face]. Any single font strip may be used in either the LM [lower magazine] or UM [upper magazine] of the font drum, but two font strips should be on the drum while rotating in order to reduce vibration and wear. [Ref. 2, p.1-1]

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

"0 # 80", "U.S. PATENT NO./ 3,710,707/ MADE IN U.S.A./ BY/ COMPUGRAPHIC/ CORPORATION", "COMPUGRAPHIC/ PART NUMBER/ 14397 - 0107/ REV - 001/ SD/ NEWS GOTHIC/ CONDENSED/ NEWS GOTHIC/ BOLD CONDENSED" and "050/ 069/ 050/ 0070". Text and graphics appear on long side edges of filmstrip.

Missing

Appears complete.

Finish

Wide, dark film strip perforated along single long edge, and in centre; also bears clear opaque printed text and graphics; silver metal and dark brown synthetic end caps.

Decoration

N/A