http://www.metaltype.co.uk/ Yesterday's Technology . . . Today! The Internet's No.1 Printers Nostalgia Site en-us http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://www.metaltype.co.ukhttp://www.metaltype.co.uk/images/metaltype2.gifMetalTypeNewshttp://feedburner.google.comThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. Click on the "show all Subscription options" link on the right for details of where you can use this feed. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/gwtff_6LNnQ/photo123.shtml Pictures and details of this single-magazine linecaster.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/gwtff_6LNnQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/photos/photo123.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/QuWpIyma8pQ/library.shtml 8-page instruction book for this Linotype/Intertype matrix repair tool. Free download from the Metal Type Library.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/QuWpIyma8pQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/library.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/0f50g0-ls4k/photo122.shtml Pictures and details of this later linecaster.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/0f50g0-ls4k" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/photos/photo122.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/noMtJnItcXk/photo121.shtml An excerpt from an advertising brochure, produced c.1960 by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/noMtJnItcXk" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/photos/photo121.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/PFU63xJrPzw/photo120.shtml Pictures taken to record this Dallas, USA trade-typesetter's move to new premises.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/PFU63xJrPzw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/photos/photo120.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/11bAdH4na5w/dvd The first Metal Type DVD is now available. It contains almost an hour and 10 minutes of historical letterpress documentary footage.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/11bAdH4na5w" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/dvd http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/QuWpIyma8pQ/library.shtml More documents have been added to the Metal Type library, including The Linotype Line, a c1960 advertising brochure; illustrated instructions for the Margach automatic metal feeder and instructions for erecting a Blue Streak Model 5 Linotype. Thanks to David M MacMillan for sending these items in.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/QuWpIyma8pQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/library.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/DDjLEXmkldA/photo119.shtml Barry Adams sent in these pics, taken on the last day of hot-metal production, before the Wapping dispute.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/DDjLEXmkldA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/photos/photo119.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/phHB2IH41FA/photo118.shtml Photograph of the composing room, taken from the front cover of a copy of The Newsman.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/phHB2IH41FA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/photos/photo118.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/QuWpIyma8pQ/library.shtml Two new Intertype documents have been added to the Library. Numerical listing of typefaces by font numbers and a character count copy-fitting table.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/QuWpIyma8pQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/library.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/bJSQI7cE6y0/photo117.shtml A couple of old black and white photographs, recently offered for sale on eBay.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/bJSQI7cE6y0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/photos/photo117.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/QuWpIyma8pQ/library.shtml The latest item to be added to the Metal Type library. Instructions from the Linotype company on how to erect a machine from the boxes suppled by the factory.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/QuWpIyma8pQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/library.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/QuWpIyma8pQ/library.shtml Lots more Ludlow literature has been added to the library, thanks to David MacMillan. Includes self-centering stick instructions, new Model M brochure and Ruleform Matrix details.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/QuWpIyma8pQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/library.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/C3UuruY_cgA/photo116.shtml 1909 advertisement offering to upgrade the Linotype Model 1 to a two-letter machine.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/C3UuruY_cgA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/photos/photo116.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/kfrRjYoZyXY/photindex4.shtml If anyone has tried to view the excellent Internet Archive videos, including Trees to Tribunes, Bookbinding, Making Books, etc. on Metal Type recently they will have noticed a problem. A change in the player code caused them not to work. I'm pleased to say the code on the relevant pages has now been updated and the videos play in higher quality. Go to Photos Section Four or click the heading of this article.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/kfrRjYoZyXY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/photos/photindex4.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~3/C9uMPVtmSAo/story40.shtml A thesis that I produced for my City and Guilds course-work, way back in the 1970s.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MetalTypeNews/~4/C9uMPVtmSAo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.metaltype.co.uk/stories/story40.shtml