| Ann has it right. Stats were copies of the original art work in a photographic form. They could be line art or halftones. Stats were generally paper copies that could be positive or reverses. I used to work for a manufacture of Stat Cameras. The company was called VGC. These had their own little darkroom and a built-in processor. You could get a dry copy of your paste up in about 2 min and you could enlarge it up to 300% and reduce it to 25% in one shot. One of the deaths of this type of camera was the agreements the companies had with companies like Kodak and others ran out and their were other companies there to supply paper both pos and neg and filmss that was cheaper. The quality of the material went down and people quit buying the materials. Then the whole desk top imagesetter thing took off.
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