Reply To: 1970s Typesetting

Sounds like a blast Jongware lol.

I was just inbetween the camera, film and CPU era. Shooting film and making plates was a lot of fun, gumming plates with a cloth etc.

Then we had computer to film with postscript, then computer to plate with postscript, then eventually computer to plate with PDF, which just made the whole process about 10 times easier.

A guy I worked with used to talk a lot about punching type and how he had no screen and bascially typed blind.

Then again told me how he got free pints of milk every day as he stood over the molting lead everyday too.