Yesterday’s Technology . . . Today!
A regular contributor to Metal Type, Graeme How, got in touch to tell me about his local newspaper, The Wairoa Star, celebrating its centenary.
We have five pages of articles about the Wairoa Star sent in by Graeme, check the “Related Pages” menu to see the others.
The Press Gang team that work as volunteers in the print shop in The Settler Building at Taranaki Pioneer Museum in Stratford NZ had a great win over Queen’s Birthday week-end 2019 with the first composed line being cast on their recently-acquired Model C Nebitype line casting machine (Serial No. 78).
It was donated to us by The Printing Museum, Wellington, NZ in 2018. From the beginning of restoration of the machine Rob Clarkson has been at the forefront although there’s been a handful of other people that have helped along the way, notably John Nicholson, with grateful assistance from Doug Holland.
Many thanks to Mike Wilson for sending in this picture of a poster that he bought in 1976.
It seems to have been very well produced and Mike tells me it is in excellent condition.
Many thanks to Mike Wilson, from Yorkshire in the UK, for sending in this story.
Says Mike:
Many Thanks to Mike Wilson, from Yorkshire in the UK, for sending in this story.
This 104-page booklet was full of tables and facts for the printing trade.
Many thanks to Mike Wilson, from Yorkshire in the UK, for sending in this story.
Says Mike:
Many Thanks to Mike Wilson, from Yorkshire in the UK, for sending in this story.
Says Mike: “One day, late in my career, I was production manager at Driffield Times. I now realise that I was not a very able manager, much preferring to be a keyboard operator.
Many thanks to Mike Wilson, from Yorkshire in the UK, for sending in this story.
Says Mike: “After I had officially retired, I occasionally typeset material for local printers as I had a Macintosh computer at home.
A superb documentary with interviews from ex Fleet Street workers, produced by digital:works.
The interviewees give a real insight into what it was like to work in the UK national newspaper industry in those days.
The date is Sunday, July 2, 1978, the last time that the New York Times was printed using hot metal.
David Loeb Weiss, then a proofreader and Carl Schlesinger a Linotype operator filmed and narrated this film to record the occasion.