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Posted by Ken Smith
 - April 16, 2022, 12:29:39 AM
When I was a printer with Cunard, all Menu covers were printed shore side with the menu printed in it at a later date. Also the Daily Programme of Events cover and Newspaper was printed likewise. When I was on the "Queen Mary" we always had to keep an eye on the Lino pot in rough weather so that it did not overflow.
             Ken Smith   
Posted by listohan
 - April 10, 2022, 01:56:00 AM
Thanks. A copy of the Mauretania's ship's newsletter recording the rescue would be an interesting exhibit in any maritime (or printing) museum.
Posted by Keri Szafir
 - April 03, 2022, 02:11:10 PM
I'd say either manual composition or phototypesetting combined with photopolymer or offset.
Posted by Mechanic
 - April 03, 2022, 02:32:49 AM
Posted by listohan
 - April 02, 2022, 10:49:28 AM
We have been going through a scrapbook of my wife's journey on P & O's Canberra from England to Australia in the mid 1960's. I was impressed by the menus and other professionally produced material created on board during the voyage. In pre-desktop publishing days, does anyone know what technology would have been used?

The thought of hot metal and the onset of rough seas is not a pleasant one. Or would they have thought of that?

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