It was then re-keyed into an enormous Linotype machine, which dropped in lines of type in hot lead - which actually used molten metal for the letters - which were then inked and rolled to produce galley proofs, the pages you used to see hanging up in publishing offices.
             This would be corrected by the editorial department before going on to be designed on layout grid paper, with headlines again marked up for size and font.
             Photographs went to a blockmaker who engraved an image onto a metal block.
             Then the entire page was made up in metal, which was then etched - burned onto a thin copper plate, similar to the plates used by the printing industry today, except they are now usually made of aluminium. They could then be put on the press.
             So about this time, the mid-80s saw the introduction of the tool that began the desktop publishing revolution - the Apple Macintosh computer. The Apple Mac was a million miles away from the cold grey slabs that represented computers up to that point. It was approachable, understandable and possessed an intricate, well thought out interface. It laughed in the face of DOS programming. Even now many Mac users claim their machines have personalities and idiosyncrasies.
             In 1985 Apple showed the world where the publishing industry was going when it launched the LaserWriter printer and Aldus PageMaker. Now, for the first time, Desk Top Publishing was possible. The publishing industry had changed forever and from that point, things started moving very quickly.
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