Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 22, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Gerry Walden wrote: > Another who has memories. good to know that the trays are getting a second > life at least. >> On 22 Jul 2015, at 19:37, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote: >> >> Wow! In my twenties, I commonly ordered type set in hot metal, there was >> only one printer in town still doing that. The quality was superior to >> the cold type of the day, which was a photographic printing process, with >> strips of film in a machine with the characters on it. Like anything >> else, cold type was cheaper and most people didn't notice a difference, >> so cheap and mediocre won. Modern computer set type is quite good, but >> I'll be hot metal is still better. >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Walden >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:46 AM >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Type Trays >> >> Pleased my image brought back some memories Sonny. >> >> Gerry >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 22 Jul 2015, at 13:37, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> My first Journalism job was at a letterpress weekly. The press room set >>> headlines and ads from trays like that. >>> >>> We had Linotype machines for the hard work of setting body type. >>> >>> http://www.linotipia.it/english.htm >>> >>> When I went to a newspaper that printed offset, it was like going >>> digital; >>> Everything was typed on IBM typewriters. >>> >>> I moved away from newspapers by the time they went to electronic >>> newsroom. >>> >>> I still get daily delivery of a paper newspaper, but when I'm out of >>> town, >>> I read it on my iPad. >>> >>> Hotels no longer put a paper outside your room every morning. >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at >>> icloud.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> A newly scanned image from a T-Max 400CN film taken in the year 2000 >>>> whilst walking the streets in Paris: >>>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/1060-27a.jpg.html >>>> >>>> To me this in a way speaks of the redundancy of film for digital. We actually hand set type from trays, along with wood cuts, engravings, etchings, and silver points, in our Intaglio print class; as well as stone lithographs in Lithography print class. Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist