Many thanks to Andy from the Basel Paper Mill Museum for sending in these videos of their Koenig & Bauer Rollrenner Press VIII, dating from 1926, printing posters.
Feeding paper
Category: Historical
Historical items
1891 Typesetting Competition
These illustrations and article come from a copy of “The Graphic” Illustrated Weekly Newspaper (Chicago) dated October 31, 1891.
There is a full report of this competition on the Metal Type Forum here: 1891 Typesetting Competition.
Gisborne Museum, NZ
Graeme How sent in these pictures of a neglected Intertype and an old press from a recent visit to the Gisborne Museum of Technology and Transport in New Zealand.
Nodis Rapid Caster
THIS MACHINE was advertised in the November 1944 edition of The British Printer.
The text of the advertisement is as follows: “Type! A Worry? It isn’t to printers who have a Nodis Rapid Caster.
Jessie Horton, c1910
I have scant details of the subject of this photograph.
It was offered for sale on eBay by a seller based in the USA.
Linotype Model 8 Video
Many thanks to the Provost News, Provost, Alberta, Canada, for allowing Metal Type to make use of this video.
The machine has quite a history after having been saved from “The Great Fire of Provost” in 1946.
Linotype Model 31 Video
Robert Griffith sent in this video of a Linotype Model 31.
The footage was shot in October 2005 at the Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas, USA.
Model K Elrod Restoration
Thanks largely to John Nicholson of Hamilton, NZ, the Model K Elrod which had been in storage at the Taranaki Aviation Transport And Technology Museum (TATATM), New Plymouth, is now operational.
To the writer’s knowledge, the Model K had been in the lean-to store of the museum, on a heavy wooden plank base since its arrival at the museum and never used since de-commissioning at the donor’s premises (Taranaki Newspapers Ltd., New Plymouth) around 1985.
The Modern Typograph
The fascinating story of how a new version of this old machine came to be manufactured in 1960.
Article taken from The History of the Printer by Dr. James Eckman, published in 1965 by North American Publishing Company, Philadelphia, USA.
July 3, 1886
Many thanks to the Rutgers University Libraries, John Depol Collection for permission to use this picture.
On July 3, 1886, seated at the keyboard of his new machine, Ottmar Mergenthaler handed to Whitelaw Reid a slug of metal. Reid exclaimed, “It’s a line-of-type!” Thus was christened the forerunner of today’s modern linecasting machine: the Linotype.