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Printer’s Hat Instructions
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1950s Clipart
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Miscellaneous
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Typesetting
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Press Instructions
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Monotype
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The Monotype Recorder
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Monotype fan? Contact others worldwide via the Metal Type Forum: Monotype Chat or the Super Caster Club.
Galley Gab
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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).
The Library
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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.