Landmark Dates and People

Key Dates

1871 - 1906

Hand set and printed at Sandbank

1906 - 1923

Hand set and printed at Dunoon

1923 - 1985

Newspaper set on Linotype Hot Metal Machines

1968 - 1985

Photographs produced on plastic using a drum scanner

1985 - Present

Photo-typesetting supersedes hot metal process. Newspaper changes form Broadsheet to Tabloid

1985 - 1991

Newspaper printed at Oban times

1991 - Present

Solna Web Printing Machine installed at John Street returning the printing process to Dunoon

1995 - Present

Photo-typesetting replaced by computer desktop publishing

Editors

Period

Editor

1871 - 1881

William Inglis Senior

1881 - 1949

Robert Inglis

1949 - 1977

William Inglis

1977 - 1982

Marion Carmichael

1982 - 1994

William Millar

1995 - 1999

David Goodwin

1999 - 2000

Gerry Burke

2000 - 2003

Marion Carmichael

2003 -

Bill Jardine

William Inglis Senior

Robert Inglis

William Laidlaw Inglis

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Marion Carmichael

Bill Millar

David Goodwin

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