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Dean Nayes sent in this amusing story about a very ingenious Linotype operator.<\/p>\n

DURING my travels across the United States I came across a very ingenious Linotype operator.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He had taken a lower case e matrix, cut it out, turned it upside down, and somehow managed to restore the mat so it would cast within a line all right.<\/p>\n

At times, when a new operator was working, he would insert this lower case e into the magazine of his machine, leave it for some time, then retrieve it without the operator knowing.<\/p>\n

Soon, the galley proofs would come back to the new operator, with a lower case e upside down.<\/p>\n

He would be instructed to run out all the lower case e’s and cast a line so they could find the culprit.<\/p>\n

But, of course, there was no upside down e, leaving the operator wondering what in the hell happened to his machine.<\/p>\n

Did you enjoy this story? <\/strong>If so, you may be interested to know that it appears in “Printers’ Tales”<\/strong><\/a> available as a paperback or ebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dean Nayes sent in this amusing story about a very ingenious Linotype operator. DURING my travels across the United States I came across a very ingenious Linotype operator. 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