CompuServe Messages

Well, Linotype's machines have a resettable film counter, but it's default units are either centimeters or inches. It's hardly practical for doing a "quick glance to see how much film's left" and I've never used it, and when you change supply cassettes between different media, it's value becomes moot. I've been told that the newer L300's ("R" or "Q" model, depending on who you're trying to upset at the moment) have multiple counters to accommodate multiple media, but Steve W. will have to answer that one. Compugraphic has a similar electronic counter which is a bit more flexible on the increment, but it takes a keyboard sequence to read it, so it's equally unusable for that "quick glance". As Steve mentioned, RIPMaster may be your answer here, but I can't speak first hand (yet) because it's been sitting on my desk – unopened – since early December because I've been putting out too many fires to break away for a test! …mm