The Lost Art of Paste-Up

A short film from the London Review of Books about paste-up, the analogue method of assembling magazine and newspaper pages by hand before desktop publishing. It shows how text and images were laid out on boards and prepared for printing.

HN people submit it as a look at how print layout worked before DTP, and cite it to explain the paste-up and stat camera workflow.

“paste up involve pasting content onto boards that were then photographed (with a stat camera) to create film negatives for printing plates”