their main employers. Private Eye has traditionally lagged behind other magazines in adopting new typesetting and printing technologies. At the start it was laid out with scissors and paste and typed on three IBM Electric typewriters – italics, pica and elite – lending an amateurish look to the pages. For some years after layout tools became available the magazine retained this technique to maintain its look, although the three older typewriters were replaced with an IBM composer. Today the magazine is still predominantly in black and white (though the cover and some cartoons inside appear in colour) and there is more text and less white space than is typical for a modern magazine. Much of the text is printed in the standard Times New Roman font. The former "Colour Section" was printed in black and white like the rest of the magazine: only the content was colourful. Frequent targets for parody and satire While the magazine in general reports corruption, self-interest and incompetence in a broad range of industries and lines of work, certain people and entities have received a greater amount of attention and coverage in its pages. As the most visible public figures, prime ministers and senior politicians make the most natural targets, but Private Eye also aims its criticism at journalists, newspapers and prominent or interesting businesspeople. It is the habit of the magazine to attach nicknames, usually offensive or crude, to these people, and often to create surreal and extensive alternate personifications of them, which usually take the form of parody newspaper articles in the second half of the magazine. Frequent and notable investigations Private Eye has regularly and extensively reported on and investigated a wide range of far-reaching issues, including: The utilisation of tax havens by large corporations and the failure of government in tackling the problem. The revolving door from politics to lucrative corporate roles. The MPs' expenses scandal and ongoing abuses of the expenses system. Conflicts of interest in general, but particularly between public officials or politicians and big business, the arms trade, etc. Human rights abuses by countries with whom the government continues to carry on business. Phone hacking and other improper practices in the mainstream press. The deaths at Deepcut army barracks between 1995 and 2002, particularly that of Cheryl James in 1995. The investigation into the Lockerbie bombing of 1988. The contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s and 1980s. The