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Great documentary: The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times
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I worked at a small print shop for a few years in the mid '70's. When I started in 1975 about a quarter to a third of the type was set in house on one of Linotype's competitors machines. When I left in 1978 I don't think they had powered one of them up in several months.

As it was, the type that was set was only used long enough to create a camera ready proof. Almost all of the printing done was offset printing and the proofs were used to create the plates.
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Re: Great documentary: The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times - by JoeH - 09-08-2016, 12:43 AM

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