Category: Australia/NZ

Queensland Newspapers, Brisbane

Pages waiting to be dissed
Pages being lined up for the last time before being dissed.

Pictures of the last day of hot metal production, sent in by Alan Jones.

The photographs that follow were scanned in from a special edition published by Queensland Newspapers in Brisbane, Australia back in 1982. Read the Full Article . . .

Harry Craig

Harry Craig
Harry Craig has been working all his life on Linotype machines. Here he is, at 75 years of age, still doing photomount typesetting with a linotype 31.

Harry, from New Zealand owns and maintains three Linotype machines. Pictures sent in by his colleague, Tim Ede.

Linotype fan? Don’t miss the Linotype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum. Read the Full Article . . .

Welcome to Metal Type

METAL TYPE is the place for printers, typesetters and newspaper workers, who fondly remember those letterpress days, to come and reminisce.

The site originally concentrated on the ingenious Linotype mechanical typesetting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884. Read the Full Article . . .