#finding clients
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Hi Betty,
I worked some in hot type in the early seventies. It was a very
interesting process. Then the company bought in a paper tape system. This
wasn't as much fun. There were a lot of errors where the rail would go up
without enough keys on it and hot lead would shoot all over the place. I
think I like my pc better <grin>.
Happy trails, Jim in CT
Hi Jim,
While hot metal type has always held a certain allure, paper tape…never!
I have a friend in the business who tells me his first job was cleaning
space bands! I get a real kick out of that one.
Betty in Orange County
I actually got started in school, hand setting type from a California Job
Case. Then running it off on an old hand fed letterpress machines. That was
real fun but I'd hate to do it for a living.
But, I have to admit I do have brief fantasies, now and then, about those
little Kelsey presses (sp?) and a roomfull of type. I love the smell of
fresh ink.
Jim
Jim –
Just an observation about all those "squirts" you were getting on a
paper-tape driven Lino – an interesting phenomenon that I saw was that
semi-automated linecasters tended to get less preventive maintenance that
did operator-driven linos, and they were run harder and longer, to boot!
The net result is that the space bands on paper-tape machines tended to get
cleaned about one-tenth as often for the same amount of typesetting, so
it's no wonder that they squirted a lot!
…mm