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 Font in stick:
 33pt Caxtonian -c.1880


Some printing terms to recall:

galley, key, stone,  signature, stock, dog, mid, magenta, dis, quarto, em, rule, stick, chapel, matrix, stereo, slug, proof press, scoring, ream, spine, cast, hickey, bone, sett off, back knife, ragged, recto, point, Royal, ejector, quoin,  wf reader spread, quadder, calliper, line gauge, die,  super caster, disser, em,  cutting rule, diecase, thin, mounting block, card, nut, mark up, stet, leader, full point, punchbar, half tone, folios, logotype, EN,
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Last Update:

26 January, 2010

 

 

 

This page is set aside to display photographs of our machinery and personnel.

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Type in a Setting stick

Neville working on the Ludlow typesetting machine

Doug setting a line

Herb feeding one of our Platens

Various locking up keys and quoins

Lay of the case

Type locked in a form ready for the press

Working at the platen