PatrickG wrote:
James Knott wrote:
BTW, many years ago, I used to do some hand set typesetting, picking
letters out of a large tray or "case" as shown in this article (near
the bottom). A printing shop would have a cabinet containing several
cases and a sloped surface on the top where the composition was done.
Not to mention working with the type upside down and backwards too! :-)
I used to set type for my father when the family owned and operated
the town paper in the mid 70s.
Unfortunately I had the horrid experience of spilling a case of 8pt
type. Not a lot of fun to sort out and put back. Is there a link to the
article you reference or did I miss it somehow?
My experience was in my uncle's printing shop, where most of the work
was specialized stuff that no one else would touch. They'd print on
just about anything, including metal, plastic, glass, cloth etc. A big
part of the work was car dealer stickers on vinyl or mylar. I recall
one huge order for Hallmark cards on parchment, where my uncle's shop
did everything but apply gold leaf to the cards. That job involved
offset & screen printing and embossing. They did letterpress, offset
and screen printing and also die cutting and stapling in that shop. I
worked there during my high school summer vacations.
Yes, I realized I forgot the URL, shortly after sending the message. I
resent it with the URL.
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