Yesterday’s Technology . . . Today!
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A nice 1-page diagram and instructions on how to make a pressman’s hat from a sheet of newspaper, produced by Ayre & Spottiswoode Ltd.,… Read the rest
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A collection of superb 1950s advertising illustrations, free to download.… Read the rest
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An 18-page advertising brochure for Jas. Broadley Printers, Accrington, UK.… Read the rest
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Linecaster fan? Make contact with others worldwide on the Metal Type Forum: Linotype Chat or Intertype Chat.… Read the rest
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A nice, clean 17-page document with a couple of illustrations in PDF format (464KB).… Read the rest
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Monotype fan? Contact others worldwide via the Metal Type Forum: Monotype Chat or the Super Caster Club.… Read the rest
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Monotype fan? Contact others worldwide via the Metal Type Forum: Monotype Chat or the Super Caster Club.
The Monotype Recorder was a trade magazine published by the Monotype Corporation.… Read the rest
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Mike O’Connor, Secretary of the Amalgamated Printers Association, published 12 issues of this excellent, full-colour PDF magazine in 2007. Here, with Mike’s permission, are all 12 issues, available to browse and download individually or you can get all 12 issues as a Zip file (11.9 MB).… Read the rest
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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.
These machines were the mainstay of newspaper type production for almost a century and many have been preserved.… Read the rest