Rogers Typograph

[Mechanic]

Wayne Messell, another Australian Linotype mechanic, found this interesting German video of a print shop which includes an operating Rogers Typograph. The site also includes an interesting photo of the machine, which I have included.



http://youtu.be/4b-PDAqoaWM

[Dave Hughes]

Nice find George, I don't think I've seen a video of a Rogers Typograph in action before.

Also liked the comp swigging from a bottle of beer, about 40 seconds in!

[John Cornelisse]

A film like this could easily be made in the Druckkunst Museum in Leipzig,

this museum has a lot of machines, that still are operated. Linecasters, Monotype machines... and of course the typographs that survived there, with several sets of matrices.

their website is: www.druckkunst-museum.de/

did all of you ever heard of a "Victorline" ? that machine resembles in many objects a linotype/intertype machine...

see: http://www.druckkunst-museum.de/Composing_Techniques/articles/403.html

[Mechanic]

Yes John,
We have heard of Victorline..

http://www.metaltype.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,437.msg1128.html#msg1128

[Randy]

Thanks for posting that video. I had not seen such a machine in action.

Randy
New Douglas, Illinois