{"id":701,"date":"2017-06-13T17:46:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T17:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/?page_id=701"},"modified":"2023-01-19T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:46:03","slug":"my-last-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/my-last-hurrah\/","title":{"rendered":"My Last Hurrah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Turner’s certainly kept up with the times. Still working part-time in the print industry at the age of 68.<\/p>\n

\"Intertype<\/a>
THIS Manufacturer’s Plate was taken from the last hot-metal typesetting machine I ever worked on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had to pay a scrap dealer to haul it away after I disassembled it. Sad!<\/p>\n

This took place at Patrick & Company, a rubber stamp and marking device manufacturer at 563 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, USA, March 18-20,1987.<\/p>\n

After this I “set” type on a Graphitec (pc\/ms-dos front end, photopaper for paste-up), Compugraphic (pc\/ms-dos front end, film for stripping) and a Mac+ running Ready, Set, Go! for laser paper output for rubber stamp copy.<\/p>\n

Currently using HP state-of-the Art Laptop running Quark Express, PageMaker, Freehand and Photoshop. I’ve come a long way!<\/p>\n

I first started typesetting from the case in High School. Graduated to Linotypes on the Cleveland (Ohio) News and then Intertypes on the Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer.<\/p>\n

Formed a preference for the Intertypes. Chevy over Ford, Luckies over Camels, Bud over Schiitz, etc.<\/p>\n

Also worked Cleveland (Ohio) Press,Tampa (Florida) Tribune, Clearwater (Florida) Sun, Atlanta (Georgia) Journal-Constitution and San Francisco (California) Chronicle and several small commercial shops in between.<\/p>\n

The oldest I have run was a Model 8 Linotype and the newest was an Intertype Monarch. Went through Linotype Comets and Electrons, also the AP Linotype and I don’t remember the Model No., but it was a double-plunger, 42-pica Linotype monster that brought a new dimension to the term “tight line squirt.”<\/p>\n

My favorite was a Model G4-4 Intertype with a Star Parts hydraulic quadder, a Mohr saw and split Visilite mags in 1st and 3rd position.<\/p>\n

I am currently semi-retired (68) but working part-time at a junk-mail printer making plates for 4- and 5-color Heidelbergs, a Didde 4\/1 roll-to-sheet and two Halm Jets.<\/p>\n

I also double in brass on an MBO folder.<\/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":"

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