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Czech Print Works

Intertype Model B (German manufacture) in full working order.

Mirek Subrt, from the Czech Republic, sent in these photos of his print plant. Mirek worked many years as a Compositor, mainly on Intertypes, but is currently working as a bus driver. Ivan Kohout took the photographs.

McWhan Printers

After more than 70 years the family business, McWhan Printers, Scabrborough, UK closed down early in 2007. Specialising in posters and magazines, the business remained fully letterpress to the end. Ken McWhan used Metal Type Classifieds to try and find new homes for the equipment on these pages — many thanks to the people who were able to help him out.

Cossar Flat-Bed Web Press

Thanks to David Philips for sending in these pictures of a historical press from Scotland, UK.

FROM the Strathearn Herald, Saturday July 6, 1907. Read the Full Article . . .

Koenig & Bauer Rollrenner Press Video

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 Read the Full Article . . .

Last Letterpress Newspaper in Australia

Linotype operator — John English seated at a vintage Intertype machine setting next edition’s news in lead, tin and antimony at 288 degrees Celsius.

Graeme How spotted this article in an edition of the Australian trade magazine ProPrint. Visit their website here: www.proprint.com.au

TAKE A DRIVE up the scenic Waterfall Way from Bellingen, on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, towards the university city of Armidale, and when you start to breathe the cooler, fresh air at the top of the plateau you’ll find yourself in the snug town of Dorrigo. Read the Full Article . . .

Gisborne Museum, NZ

Sad sight — A sad sight to an ex hot metal man. The ‘eighth wonder of the world’ rusting away.

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. Read the Full Article . . .

Damaged Miehle Press

TONY PRESTON sent in this photograph of a press, which he thinks was a Miehle, taken at the Government Printing Office, Perth, Western Australia in 1980.

Says Tony, “The damage is down to the machine minder leaving his quoin key on the bed of the machine, then pressing the start button.” Read the Full Article . . .

Rusholm Printers, York, 1959

Rusholm Printers, 1959 — ARTHUR KELLY, Terry Rowan, Tony Preston, Walter Pond, Bill Duffield and Don Robson pictured at Rusholme Printers, York, UK in 1959.

Thanks to Tony Preston for sending in this slightly out of focus (but worth including) photo of Rusholmes Printers.

Tony Preston, who sent in the photograph said: “I’m a native of York and served my time as a hand compositor at Rusholme Printers who were originally in Market Street before moving to High Ousegate in 1956 or 7. Read the Full Article . . .