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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Type Trays
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:45:48 -0500
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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
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