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Letterpress Coffee Table

Long-time Metal Type contributor Graeme How, from New Zealand, has found a great way of displaying his old letterpress memorabilia.

Says Graeme: “I have a typecase with type and also some printing blocks, Intertype border slides and mats which I rescued when The Wairoa Star changed to offset in 1977.… Read the rest

Printle: Wordle for Printers Try our word puzzle – there’s a new one every week.
German “new line” linecasters The story of the most advanced linecasters ever made, with illustrations of all models.
British Print Trade Union Cards – A unique collection of typographically exquisite membership cards from Dave Bowles.
Glossary of Printing Trade Terms – George Clark’s list sheds light on a whole new language!
The Whittaker Collection – Photographs of this definitive collection of linecasters stored at the UK’s Manchester Science Museum.
Banging Out – Fleet Street Remembered -Video documentary about the UK national newspaper industry.
Farewell etaoin shrdlu – A look at the production of the last hot metal New York Times.

Re: International Monotype Memory Project
@Terrence Chouinard, all,the last capture on achive.org is pretty readable and dates from 2017. However, it looks like no updates where made to the web since 2006.[url="http...
Re: Reviving Signal Font
This project is now fully funded, and the digital font should be made available in 2024.
Re: Yanks and Rebels
Speaking of Elektrons, Dave Seat, assisted by volunteer Chris Bradford have gotten the machine at the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, Mass. cycling and casting slugs. I was up on Wednesday with a ...