[GreenKeys] Typesetting Perforator, 6 Level Equipment, etc.

[Harold Hallikainen]

> On 20 Jun 2020 at 18:35, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>
>> In high school, I had a couple
>> offset presses: A Multilith model 80
>> and a Multilight model 1250. There's
>> a video of a 1250 in operation at
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5kK
>> iQFrh0 . Note that this shows color
>> printing. The 1250 did just one
>> color at a time, so this was possibly
>> the fourth pass through the press.
>
> wow ... what a small world and what a diverse
> group here !!   Guess what ...  in high school
> and college I had first a Model 80 and then
> a Model 1250 offset press myself !!  I used
> them to print the NJ Army MARS Newsletter
> (which I wrote, edited, published, mailed, etc!)
> as well as most of the ads for B V E Enterprieses,
> which was my Teletype and surplus 'stuff' business
> at the time.   Looking at those printed pages now
> they look really crude ... but they were still better
> than the purple Hectograph I started out with.  ;))
>
> And guess what, squared ...   I still have both of
> those presses ...  they have not been run in decades,
> though.  I used to use PAPER plates for short runs,
> such as the MARS newsletter ...  I actually found a
> way to run the paper plate through a Xerox copier,
> and the toner worked to grab the ink.  For longer runs,
> the Vocational Print shop teacher would burn an
> aluminum plate for me (his shop was right next to
> my Vocational Electronics shop in the high school).
>
> Anybody want an offset press ??  !!
>
> w2jc

That's great! I just watched Linotype: The Film. Great! There was a fair
amount of stuff about the machines being scrapped. The same thing happened
in the cinema industry starting around 2010. Thousands of film projectors
were scrapped as the industry went digital. There are still a few in use,
including at the Denver Film Society. Also, quite a few 70 mm projectors
were restored and installed for some Quentin Tarantino that were
distributed on 70 mm film (including Hateful Eight in 2015).

When I was in college (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo), I volunteered at the
radio station ( https://kcpralumni.org/wiki/ ). The studio was in the
Graphic Communications building. Down the hall was the Linotype. Also the
Teletype wire service with the 6 bit perforator I wrote about earlier.
They had a couple early phototypesetters in the Linotype room. One had a
drum with a film strip with all the characters on it. As the drum rotated,
a light flashed to expose the film with the right character. Another used
a matrix of characters on film and a bunch of mirrors that would flip
position to select the right character and send it to the film. Downstairs
was the Shakespeare Press Museum (
http://www.grc.calpoly.edu/students/shakespeare-press-museum ). A friend
photographed all the ancient type so he could phototypeset those fonts. He
then started Tintype Graphics ( some about him at
https://www.newtimesslo.com/sanluisobispo/cal-poly-professor-and-photographer-brian-lawler-brings-perspective-to-slo-museum-of-art/Content?oid=2940870
). I used to fix his tape perforating machines that were based on the
Intel 8080.

Harold



I used the paper plates on my Multilith machines as well as the aluminum
ones. The paper ones were typed on with a special typewriter ribbon. The
aluminum ones were photographic.







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