[GreenKeys] Two Teletype model 20RO printers available

[Bruce Gentry]

There are a few boutique print shops and small newspapers that still use 
Linotypes, as well as high end book publishers that still print with 
metal type.  Offset printing has improved greatly since I took printing 
in high school over fifty years ago, so it is satisfactory for most 
applications today.  However, for  books intended to be read long term 
such as novels, there is a difficult to describe clarity and readability 
metal type or letterpress delivers that offset does not. It does come at 
a price, however,  letterpress printed books with leather covers and top 
quality bindings  can sell new for hundreds of dollars.

       Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY


On 5/9/19 12:54 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> My college newspaper had a Linotype and wire service machines.
>
> The school also had the Shakespeare Press Museum (
> http://www.grc.calpoly.edu/students/shakespeare-press-museum ) . They had
> a bunch of antique type. A friend pulled proofs of each set of type, then
> photographed them to make film for those phototypesetters. This was all in
> the early 1970s.
>
> Harold
>
>
>> Just a bit of trivia, Randall.
>>
>> The Associated Press in North Carolina still had Model 20 papeprinters and
>> tape punchers at subscribers as late as early 1979.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Harold
>>
>>
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