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Tag Archives: printing history
What’s in a street name?
I walked down Bayerstrasse yesterday morning, heading east from our apartment near the Hauptbahnhof, then turned right on Senefelderstraße. I made a point of doing this because I was on my way to the big Calumet camera store in Munich … Continue reading
CNC router owners: meet the quoin
For centuries printers have been locking-up type inside a frame called a chase, then putting the chase into a printing press to complete letterpress printing projects. The method for doing the lock-up was originally done with wooden wedges which were … Continue reading
Rewiring the Linotype machine
I’ve not blogged in quite a while, for which I apologize to my faithful readers. It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything going on. It was that I had writer’s blog. I couldn’t come up with anything to say about … Continue reading
Posted in History, Imposition and Pagination, Printing and Printing Processes, Typography
Tagged antique printing, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, letterpress, letterpress printing, linecasting, Linotype, Linotype machine, printing history, Shakespeare Press Museum, typographic history, typography
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