Mary from Maid in Britain has been in touch — the Rufford Printing Co in Mawdesley, Lancashire helped me produce a booklet — a first for them I think — typeset on the last Intertype machine of its kind ever made and which was in use at the Guardian until 1987 — then hand printed…
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Hiring Hot Metal Compositors
I’d missed this in July (not sure how) about friends at Urban Cottage Industries hiring for line casting machine operators.
Urban Cottage Industries asked that I join their printer, David Evans, to discuss letterpress printing. They run a battery of linecasting machines and run a number of presses to create their bespoke and short-run printed goods. David — when back at Airedale Products — was good enough to discuss printing with my as I got started…
A guide — in note form — to salvaging a Intertype or Linotype
The building blocks of the printed word and today’s graphic design