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Started by Dave Hughes, September 25, 2019, 09:58:58 AM

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Dave Hughes

I just love this Instagram project by DWRI Letterpress of Providence, Rhode Island, USA. They are putting out a news item, set on a Linotype, sometimes with headlines from a Ludlow every day for a year. So, pretty much what these machines were invented to do, but on Instagram. Genius!



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Mechanic

I particularly like the clean sharp printed results.
The operator would do well to give the keyboard a dusting and pick up the mats scattered on the cover tray for the keyboard, but then I'm a mechanic not an operator
They could also use a proof reader I believe inwhich should be in which.

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George Finn (Mechanic)
Gold Coast
Queensland
AUSTRALIA

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