[Leica] IMG: Type Trays

[Bill Pearce]

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.
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>>
>> Gerry Walden LRPS
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>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
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>
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