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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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.