Photos taken in 1988 during the last days of hot type at the North Carolina (US) company. Sent in by Bob Scurry.
Edward Farnell (1915-1998)
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Cosco Printing
Category: Location
Sunday Telegraph UK
George Clark, who has also written two stories for Metal Type, sent in these photographs of the last days of hot metal.
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.
Shoe Lane to India
Photos by Malcolm Gregory of Linotypes leaving London’s Fleet Street for the journey to India in the late 1980s.
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