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In article <1991Jun09.151311.5596@dircon.co.uk> uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish) writes:

   I expect they are used to people faxing individual articles to each
   other.  You know and I know that telling someone to buy a copy
   is cheaper than faxing an article, but this is a *business*person's
   journal:-).   Apart from anything else, even if they were faxing
   copy internally, they *surely* wouldn't be doing it with finished
   proffs would they?

I think you assume they mean group 3 fax when they say "fax".  I'm pretty
sure this is not the case.  There are special "fax" systems sold for 
newspapers that have >1000dpi resolution & use very fancy compression 
algorithms and high speed digital lines.  These are used to make the 
"negatives" (sorry, don't know correct term) at the remote printing sites
and no typesetting is done outside the main site.

Why do they do this?  Well, in the case I know about (the International
Herald Tribune) it's because they put all this stuff in long before 
PostScript was invented and they can' afford to replace it yet.

John