Sue Ayers in Paste Up

Sue Ayers in Paste Up

Sue Ayers, in the composing room, working on paste-up on an advertisement page.

Prior to computerized newspaper design, paste up was integral to the printing process. In the composing room of The Washington Post, employees used cutting tools to manually lay-out the text and images of each page. Pictured here, Deaf printer Sue Ayers is pasting up a weekly paper.

James Buemi

Penny Herbold Collection

1995

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