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Started by Mechanic, June 28, 2011, 07:09:01 AM

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George Finn (Mechanic)
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Dave Hughes

Good link, George.

It looks like the pics were all part of an old web site.

Very good overview of the letterpress operation at the Washington Post.

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Dave Hughes

As a follow-up from George's posting, I've taken the more hot-metal-related pictures from the web album, and made them into a video presentation.

The video lasts about nine minutes and there are over 130 photos in it.

Some of the pictures are a little lacking in quality as it looks like some may have been scanned in from old newspapers and some seem to have been very heavily compressed.

However, overall, I think they give an excellent overview of a large letterpress newspaper operation.

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