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August 17, 2007

Old type

An interesting little mini-documentary on how printing used to be. The narration is somewhat soporific, but the topic is quite fascinating to keep me awake . . .

H/T to Jill Tallman.

Posted by Nicholas at August 17, 2007 08:51 AM
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They could do -- and I would watch -- a 60-hour miniseries on the Linotype machine alone. Amazing stuff, indeed. Posted by: Jon at August 17, 2007 03:21 PM


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