Type-Composing Machines of the Past, the Present, and the Future
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IBM Selectric IT, with Manual, Ribbon, and Correction Tape
BART Q2B2 No. 1-2 Typewriters. No.1 Manual typewriter: Remington, 1965 with library keyboard. 23 x 36 x 49 em. No. 2 Electric typewriter: IBM Selectric IT, with manual, ribbon, and correction tape. 19 X 39 X 52 Cffi., in box, 32 X 46 X 66 CIDo BART Q2C3 No.1 Computers No. la Apple lie computer, CPU with drives 1 and 2, and cable connections No. lal Owner's manual No. la2 Installation manual No. la3 DOS User's manual No. la4 DOS Programmer's manual No. laS Appleworks Tutorial No. la6 80-Column Text card manual No. la7 Extended SO-Column Text and supplement No. laS Applesoft Tutorial No. la9 Appleworks startup training discs No. lalO Screenwriter II word processing manual No. lall Hayes Micro-modem lie manual No. 1b Apple Monitor ill No. lbl Owner's manual No. lc Daisy wheel printer: Brother HR 15, with tractor feed, cable, and ribbons No. lcl Instruction manual No. lc2 Instruction manual model HR 15 No. lc3 User's manual No. lc4 Tractor Feeder instruction manual I ART c No. la- lb in box, 54x49x56 em. Q2(il3 No. le in box, 19x39x48 em. No.1 Gift ofRiehard Ogar. BART Q2C34 No.1 Computer software manuals. No.1 WordPerfect. No.la Reference version 5.2 No.lb Shared applications version 1.3 No.lc Workbook for Windows version 5.2 No. ld Program discs In box, 23 x 10 x 20 em. BART Q2S2 No.1 Supplies. No.1 Carbon paper, black, standard weight and size, 8 x 11 inches/Middletown, CT.: Remington Rand, 1960? On manufacturer's box: reproduction in blue of seal bearing legend: THE UNNERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 1868 LET THERE BE LIGHT. -
Introduction to Printing Technologies
Edited with the trial version of Foxit Advanced PDF Editor To remove this notice, visit: www.foxitsoftware.com/shopping Introduction to Printing Technologies Study Material for Students : Introduction to Printing Technologies CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN MEDIA WORLD Mass communication and Journalism is institutionalized and source specific. Itfunctions through well-organized professionals and has an ever increasing interlace. Mass media has a global availability and it has converted the whole world in to a global village. A qualified journalism professional can take up a job of educating, entertaining, informing, persuading, interpreting, and guiding. Working in print media offers the opportunities to be a news reporter, news presenter, an editor, a feature writer, a photojournalist, etc. Electronic media offers great opportunities of being a news reporter, news editor, newsreader, programme host, interviewer, cameraman,Edited with theproducer, trial version of Foxit Advanced PDF Editor director, etc. To remove this notice, visit: www.foxitsoftware.com/shopping Other titles of Mass Communication and Journalism professionals are script writer, production assistant, technical director, floor manager, lighting director, scenic director, coordinator, creative director, advertiser, media planner, media consultant, public relation officer, counselor, front office executive, event manager and others. 2 : Introduction to Printing Technologies INTRODUCTION The book introduces the students to fundamentals of printing. Today printing technology is a part of our everyday life. It is all around us. T h e history and origin of printing technology are also discussed in the book. Students of mass communication will also learn about t h e different types of printing and typography in this book. The book will also make a comparison between Traditional Printing Vs Modern Typography. -
The Building of a Book
•^. f. THE BUILDING OF A BOOK THE BUILDING OF A BOOK A SEKIES OF PRACTICAL ARTI- CLES WRITTEN BY EXPERTS IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF BOOK MAKING AND DISTRIBUTING WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THEODORE L. DE VINNE EDITED BY FREDERICK H. HITCHCOCK THE GRAITON PRESS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK COPTEIGHT, 1906, Bt the GRAFTON PRESS. Published December, 1906. ©etiicatctj TO RE.VDERS AND LOVERS OF BOOKS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY FOREWORD " The Building of a Book " had its origin in the wish to give practical, non-technical infor- mation to readers and lovers of books. I hope it will also be interesting and valuable to those persons who are actually engaged in book mak- ing and selUng. All of the contributors are experts in thoir respective departments, and hence write with authority. I am exceedingly grateful to them for their very generous efforts to make the book a success. THE EDITOR. vU ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS Introduction 1 By Theodore L. De Vinne, of Theodore L. De Vinne & Company, Printers, New York. The Author 4 By George W. Cable, Author of " Grandissimes," "The Cavalier," and other books. Resident of Northampton, Massachusetts. The Literary Agent 9 By Paul R. Reynolds, Literary Agent, New York, representing several English publishing houses and American authors. The Literary Adviser 16 By Francis W. Halsey, formerly Editor of the Nexo York Times Saturday Itevieio of Books, and literary adviser for D. Appleton & Company. Now literary adviser for Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York. The Manufacturing Department ... 25 By Lawton L. Walton, in charge of the manu- facturing department of The Macmillan Company, Publishers, New York. -
Progress in Printing and the Graphic Arts During the Victorian
CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 1891 BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE Ik Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924032192373 Sir G. Hayter, R./l. Bet* Majesty Queen Tictorta in Coronation Robes. : progress in printing and the 6raphic Hrts during the Victorian Gra. "i BY John Southward, Author of "Practical Printing"; "Modern Printing"; "The Principles and Progress of Printing Machinery"; the Treatise on "Modern Typography" in the " EncyclopEedia Britannica" Cgtii Edition); "Printing" and "Types" in "Chambers's Encyclopaedia" (New Edition); "Printing" in "Cassell's Storehouse of General Information"; "Lessons on Printing" in Cassell's New Technical Educator," &c. &c. LONDON SiMPKiN, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. 1897. X^he whole of the Roman Cypc in tbta Booh has been set up by the Linotj^pe Composing Machine, and machined direct from the Linotj'pc Bars by 6eo. CH. loncs, Saint Bride Rouse, Dean Street, fetter Lane, London, e.C. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ W Contents. ^^ Progress in Jobbing Printing Chapter I. Progress in Newspaper Printing Chapter II. Progress in Book Printing - Chapter III. Printing by Hand Press Chapter IV. Printing by Power Press Chapter V. The Art of the Compositor Chapter VI. Type-Founding Chapter VII. Stereotyping and Electrotyping Chapter VIII. Process Blocks Chapter IX. Ink Manufacture Chapter X. Paper-Making Chapter XI. Description of the Illustrations Chapter XII. ^pj progress in printing peculiarity about it It is not paid for by the person who is to become its possessor. -
566,581 Sept. 4, 1951
Sept. 4, 1951 W. PETERSON 2 566,581 STEREOTYPE CASTING MACHINE Original Filed March ill, 1948 Z2222227 2e A222s22. 3-2 22.2%v1. Patented Sept. 4, 1951 2,566,581 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,566,581 sTEREOTYPE CASTING MACHINE Wayne Peterson, Moorhead, Minn. Continuation of application Serial No. 14262, March 11, 1948. This application April 28, 1950, Serial No. 158,747 1 Claim. (C. 22-3) My invention relates generally to stereotype cated at 8) is an elongated metal box or melting casting machines, and, more Specifically, to a pot 9, which has upwardly-diverging sides O. A stereotype casting machine scorcher combina tilting lever is secured fast to the metal box 9 tion. The present application is a continuation through one of the pivot connections 8 for tilting of application Serial No. 14262, filed March 11, the metal pot 9 when it is desired to pour through 1948, now abandoned. a Suitable pouring spout 2. formed in the rear The primary object of my invention is the pro wall. Othereof. It will be observed that the pivot vision of a novel arrangement, including casting connections 8 are located to one side of the platens, metal pot, heater, and scorcher, wherein longitudinal center of the metal box 9. A front the heat utilized to melt type metal in the mettal 0. Wall 0 of the metal box is provided with a for port is also utilized for heating the Scorcher Wardly-projecting flange 3, which is adapted to platen. normally rest upon a Supporting bracket 4 con Another object of my invention is the provision necting its opposite ends to forward edges of the of a novel scorcher having relatively fixed and upStanding flanges 7. -
Press Glossary.Numbers
A Helpful List of Terms Used at the Bow & Arrow Press Anti-Skin Spray Spray solvent in the magenta cans that keeps the ink from drying in the can and forming a skin. Use each time you put a can away Apron Wear this to keep from getting ink on your nice clothes, or don’t wear nice clothes to the Press. Awl Metal implement for punching holes in paper. Band-Aids Use for cuts, scrapes and slices. In the closet near the big flammables cabinet. Beeswax Rectangular lumps of beeswax used to lubricate and waterproof the bookbinder’s thread for making booklets. Bench Hook A simple tool that hooks onto a table and allows you to cut linoleum blocks without using your hands to brace the block. Helpful for avoiding cuts, scrapes and slices. Big Black Barrel This is where rags go to die. Put them here when there is no white left on them. Biohazard Can This is where rags go when they can be used again. Always pull from the Biohazard Can before you pull from the box in the closet. Blankets Soft woolen pieces of felt that protect the intaglio press and your plate from pressure. See Starch Catcher, Pusher Felt, Pressure Felt Bone A bookbinder’s implement for making sharp creased folds. Brayer A roller with a handle. Always place metal-side down, never rest on the rubber. Broken Type Can Next to the end of the No. 4 Press. Put broken type in here to be melted down into new type. Burin Engraving tool made of tool steel. -
Print Magazine: February 2012 Documenting the Twitter of 1886
32 PRINT 66.1 FEBRUARY 2012 DIALOGUE DOCUMENTING THE TWITTER OF 1886 Douglas Wilson is a 29-year-old Why a film on Linotype? Did you have any pre- a computer but completely mechanical. graphic designer and letterpress vious connection to printing or typesetting? Mergenthaler approached the problem of printer by trade, and Linotype: The I taught myself letterpress printing as part mechanizing typesetting from a different Film, a documentary about the of my B.F.A. senior-thesis project. During angle from anyone else. Once he solved it, amazing Linotype machine, is his that time, I visited a local letterpress trade a syndicate of newspaper owners tried to first movie. For the last year and shop and encountered my first Linotype. I remove him from his own company. a half, he and two friends have was instantly hooked. been researching the history of The more I researched the Linotype, the That sounds familiar. What was your goal in the Linotype, traveling from rural more I realized how very little information making this film? I felt the story needed to Iowa to the modern headquarters was out there. For such a common machine be told. For a machine that was as ubiqui- of the manufacturer, in Germany. that was once in every city in the world, tous as the Linotype, very few people know The result is a rich study of Ottmar the Linotype didn't have much written about it. As I further studied the invention Mergenthaler’s contraption, or recorded about it. It was as if everyone of the Linotype, I found a story as capti- whose importance is next to that became so wrapped up in the newer type- vating as Citizen Kane. -
Chapter 1 Lesson 4 Technology in the 1500S
GL5 History Teacher Text Chapter 1 Lesson 4 Technology in the 1500s Student Objectives: • Review the invention, design, and uses of the printing press. • Describe how the printing press works and its importance in history. • Discuss the astrolabe and its use in navigation in the 1500s. • Make, use, and test an astrolabe. Worldview Integration: • God wants us to read, circulate, and explain his Word to others. (Acts 8:26-40; letters of Paul) • God is the maker of the heavens and the Earth. (Genesis 1:1). • God gave us the stars and constellations to help us navigate here on Earth. (Matthew 2:1-12). Materials: • C1L4 “John Gutenberg and the Invention of the Printing Press” from Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank P. Bachman, teacher resource • C1L4 Making a Simple Astrolabe • C1L4 An Instrument with a Past and a Future, teacher resource • C1L4 Printing Press Illustrations, teacher resource • Potatoes or soft objects that can be formed into letters • Paper for printing press messages • Ink or paint to dip letters into to “print” their messages Introduction: Two important inventions made possible what we call the Age of Discovery (AD 1400-1799). One was the application of an ancient tool called the astrolabe—a compact instrument used to observe sun, moon, stars, and other celestial bodies. The other was the invention of the printing press by Johannes (John) Gutenberg. He figured out the use of movable type. Because of the printing press and the travel journals of the explorers, people across Europe were able to read about a new world and its potential for trade and wealth to Europeans. -
Machine for Outting Or Shortening Linotype Slugs. Application Filed Feb, 15, 1906
No, 823,788, PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906. R., F. JACOBS, MACHINE FOR OUTTING OR SHORTENING LINOTYPE SLUGS. APPLICATION FILED FEB, 15, 1906. 2 SHEETS-SHEET , Rew. s. GRAA co, roto-irilogRAPHERS, WASklog, c. No. 823,788, w PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906. R. F. JACOBS, MACHINE FOR OUTTING OR SHORTENING LINOTYPE SLUGS, APPLICATION FILED FEB, 15, 1906. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2. N . <Z% E. I t a - NS s % s seass Es 9s 3 see . NSbNN (s Sse 2x ae SNN a ity al SAzeSF'ss eae Elektklubs N2S es 2 a e. N s SNSS1 a a Y FOSS al X S 24% s : X- itsa a D - - - - - - E e O se/ RSSŠ sae w Š5 NS ASSs es s N f N s Š 8wewtot le-- Aa e g s . too es SR SS 3 6%a24. (22.22% Q4 2-z, / al?y %Coorg, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. ROBERT F. JACOBS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES F. WALTHER, OF HOWARDWILLE, MARYLAND. MACHINE FOR cutting OR SHORTENING LINotype-slugs. No. 828,788. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 19, 1906. Application filed February 15, 1906, Serial No. 301,184, To all whom it may concern: provide a slug-cutting machine with a limit 55 Be it known that I, ROBERT F. JACOBs, a ed number of attached but movable spacers citizen of the United States, residing at Bal of varying widths, the variations being ac timore, in the State of Maryland, have in cording to the point system so that one or vented certain new and useful Improvements several spacers may be quickly moved into in Machines for Cutting or Shortening Lino position, and thereby locate a stop or abut type-Slugs, of which the following is a specifi ment where it will accurately represent a cation. -
Machines COPYRIGHT 1952 CURATORS of the UNIVERSITY of MISSOURI Manufactured in the United States of America ~ "
\ \ . ,,,, ~fuecasting Machines COPYRIGHT 1952 CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Manufactured in the United States of America ~ " VOWME 58, NUMBER 14 Journalism SERIES NUMBER 141. Published by the · U_niversity of Missouri cit Room 102, Building T-3, Columbia• Missouri. En~ered 'as .s'econd-::class matter, January 2, 1914, at post office , at Columbia,- Missouri, under the Act of Congress 'of August 24, 1912. Issued four times monthly October through May, three times monthly June through -September. - 1000. Apr_il 8, 1957. Preface Tms SECOND EDITION of the Maintenance Check List is compiled to provide a quick ready reference of common ills and cures of linecasting machinery. It also includes care and adjustments of the machines as recommended by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. There has been no attempt to make this book difficult by introducing subjects beyond the scope common to all machines. On the contrary, the end in mind is that the work be a useful tool to any man with casual ma chine knowledge who desires to solve his own problems. It is interesting to speculate on how much money is paid out each year by shop owners to have high priced machinists come in to correct problems that they could well solve themselves, given something to work with. It is hoped that to these men the book will provide a convenient, practical source of help and information. As in all such works as this, much has been left un said. Time and money are, of course, prohibitive factors and a neces~ity for selection was inevitable. Any sug gestions for future inclusions, comments, or criticisms will be appreciated by the author. -
Black Arts, Printer's Devil and a Hellbox
Black Arts, Printer’s Devil and a Hellbox January 2015 Black Arts, Printer’s Devil and a Hellbox Volume 12 – Issue 1 By Dick Fox (Compiled from multiple internet sources, and personal experiences) By Dick Fox (Compiled from multiple internet sources, and personal experiences) The definition of a Printer’s devil – than apprentice in a printing It is our mission to identify, preserve accompanied me as we attended the 6 Annual Printer’s Fair at th and promote the historic establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of legacy of the Temecula Valley and ink, fetching type, cleaning up after the journeymen (Continued printers, on or page attending 2) to educate the public about its to any other needed task. A number of famous men served as printers’ historical significance. devils in their youth, including Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Walt _____ Whitman, Mark Twain, Warren Harding, and Lyndon Johnson. 2015 Officers The origin of the term printer’s devil is not known with certainty. President Dick Fox Many theories exist of the phrases origin, such as: Printer’s devil may Vice President Rebecca Farnbach have come from the fact that areas of a printer’s apprentices’ skin Secretary Lisa Woodward Treasurer Roger Cudé inevitably would become stained black by the ink used in printing, and Past President Bonnie Martland black was associated with the “black arts”, the apprentice came to be Directors know as a devil. Cheryl Cady Lynn Cudé Another origin idea is tied to the fanciful belief among printers of Elaine Culverhouse old, that a special devil (the typographical personification of Titivillus) Elaine Eshom Jeffrey Harmon Bonnie Reed haunted every print shop, performing mischief such as inverting type, Myra Masiel-Zamora misspelling words or removing entire lines of completed work. -
Character Enhancement for Historical Newspapers Printed Using Hot Metal Typesetting
2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Character enhancement for historical newspapers printed using hot metal typesetting Iuliu Konya Stefan Eickeler Christoph Seibert Fraunhofer IAIS Sankt Augustin, Germany fe-mail: iuliu.konya, stefan.eickeler, [email protected] Abstract—We propose a new method for an effective removal type metal (with lead as its main constituent) into molds, of the printing artifacts occurring in historical newspapers each having the shape of a single character or a ligature. which are caused by problems in the hot metal typesetting, a The obtained sorts were subsequently used to press ink onto widely used printing technique in the late 19th and early 20th century. Such artifacts typically appear as thin lines between paper and produce the print. A common problem with the single characters or glyphs and are in most cases connected to procedure was the fact that ink tended to infiltrate between one of the neighboring characters. The quality of the optical the individual sorts upon imbuement, thus producing specific character recognition (OCR) is heavily influenced by this type near-vertical artifacts upon pressing them against the paper. of printing artifacts. The proposed method is based on the As can be seen in figures 1, 4 and 3, such artifacts are detection of (near) vertical segments by means of directional single-connected chains (DSCC). In order to allow the robust quite prominent and have a comparable stroke width as processing of complex decorative fonts such as Fraktur, a set well as the exact same gray level as regular characters in of rules is introduced.