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Shaun

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This is what earns the money I spend on computer stuff ....
You've seen the hand-set type and wooden type cases - well here's the actual press and press-room ...
 
Press-room ...
Very posh, of course. Comes complete with spiders (usually oil-covered), mice (complaining about the noise and nicking the paper to make nests in the type-cases) and the occasional swallow ...
 
What brand of press is it? Here one only sees Heidelbergs... Friends of mi,ne re-opened a papermill in central France, annex printing presses museum, and they have one that has to be set in motion with leg-force, 19th century. Imo, nothing ever surpassed the quality of typo: crispness, even a slight imprint, goldprint, even perforating and cutting half through adhesive papers, envelopes,...and fonts (mostly Italian) that have never been surpassed by puter fonts.

Aahhh...and each letter safely packed in cotton wool so as not to damage it...wedding fonts, even wooden blocks for posters,...the smell of ink, and the monoitonous noise of the press. No hurry, take it easy. Compare that with a four head heidelberg that is cleaned during the night by a specialist team because each minute of the printer costs money and has to be used for printing...Stress, stress and even more stress because of impossible investments.

Giime a Tee, gimme a Y, gimme a Pee, gimme a Ooo. What does that spell? TYPO!
 
Shaun, Loses a bit of the atmosphere without the sound effects!

Clunka - clunka - whisha - whoosha - wham!!

Sing! All together now!

:bustagut: :bustagut: :bustagut:

Al.
 
Fascinating Shaun! :)

What type of printing do you mostly do?
 
Cheers for sharing Shaun :righton:



Al and Erik Stu does not do cheer leading [slick]
 
Erik said:
What brand of press is it?
British Thompson Auto-Platen. Made circa 1950 and still going strong!
Aahhh...and each letter safely packed in cotton wool so as not to damage it...wedding fonts, even wooden blocks for posters,...the smell of ink, and the monoitonous noise of the press.

Cotton wool? Nope, each letter sits in its compartment and all the blocks are laid out either in large trays or on the galley rack.
Here's an example of a type case (the empty compartments should hold spaces, but I haven't finished putting everything in):
 
wbiss said:
Fascinating Shaun! :)

What type of printing do you mostly do?
I was coming to that. Mostly what are called "Draw Tickets" or "Raffle Tickets". There's little or no call nowadays for letterheads, dance tickets and the like because everyone and their grannie can do them on the home computer. But the raffle ticket needs numbering and perforating and then stapled in books or five or ten - which is a bit beyond the home computer ... If you haven't come across the raffle ticket, it's a way of making money for schools, clubs and churches etc - several prizes offered and the winners chosen by drawing the ticket stubs.

And here's the second picture - just in case you didn't believe the comment about the mouse - all the type moved, by the mouse, to form a nest and bits of paper shredded to line it. Not just one case - there were nut shells in another and when we had to move the type cabinets we took the drawers out and the mouse nipped out and ran!
 
What I meant was that some of the very fragile leaden fonts (like some of the marriage "handwritings and some gothics) were kept in cotton wool to protect the as normal storage would damage them. Setting pressure was very delicate...
 
Fragile fonts - yes, especially those with overhanging kerns. I have Palace Script, for example, but it's cast on a sloping body. With the others you just have to be careful how you place them back into the compartments - can't just chuck them in!
For the really delicate types I wouldn't use the big press - all the wedding jobs were done on the hand press (Adana 8"x5" table-top), with care!
 
Very cool! :righton: sorry to get wayyy off subject, but my eyes seemed to automatically lock onto your sig.... 1024 ram? :| Is that possible? with a laptop? :| whatever, im confused :D
 
Alistair said:
Very cool! :righton: sorry to get wayyy off subject, but my eyes seemed to automatically lock onto your sig.... 1024 ram? :| Is that possible? with a laptop? :| whatever, im confused :D

2 x 512mb ram = 1024

it's okay we know you do maths next year :bustagut: :bustagut: :bustagut:
sfm
 
sfm said:
Alistair said:
Very cool! :righton: sorry to get wayyy off subject, but my eyes seemed to automatically lock onto your sig.... 1024 ram? :| Is that possible? with a laptop? :| whatever, im confused :D

2 x 512mb ram = 1024

it's okay we know you do maths next year :bustagut: :bustagut: :bustagut:
sfm

I know that sue, but some computer's can't hold that much (they wont use that much) even if you can fit two 512mb ram chips in there ;)
 
Alistair said:
Very cool! :righton: sorry to get wayyy off subject, but my eyes seemed to automatically lock onto your sig.... 1024 ram? :| Is that possible? with a laptop? :| whatever, im confused :D

Powermac 7300 is a desktop machine; date 1997. Started with 16Mb, but I got them to fit 64. Built up over the years... The 7300 is supposed to take maximum of 512 (8 slots x 64Mb) but.... it will take (unsupported by Apple) 1024 (8 slots of 128Mb). Eventually I may get something to run OS X (maybe the G5DP...) but the 7300 has done me well so far. It now has xlr8 500 processor instead of the original Apple 166, a Firewire card (for the scanner) and a USB card (for the new printer). I bought it because it was the only one I could afford that was upgradeable (and because my wife said she thought one computer would do, wouldn't it? (Rhetorical question on her part).

Should last. My brother has some old LCIIIs in his office that still work. "You give them a job and then leave them humming away in the corner getting on with it." Never chuck nothing out if it ain't broke!
 
Thanks for the info/update and pics Shaun! :righton:

[shhh] circa 1950 and still going [stuned]... like a lot of folk around here! :D ;)
 

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