Cool beans

[pecunium]

Garamond type punches, originally uploaded by debcha.

I'd be swooning too. Some of the best times I had in High School were the learning, and then running, of Linotype.

I can call myself a printer, a typesetter, and a pressman.

The printing (casting type) was only a little more thrilling than setting it. Finally locking down the type and running a test page was "the reveal" to see if you'd done it right.

After that, actually doing the run was sort of anti-climactic

Garamonde cut these... wow.

Comments

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

SQUEE.

OMG so cool.

I can call myself none of those things. But Garamond cut those punches. That is awesomely cool.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

That's super cool. Just looking at the images she posted from the
Plantin-Moretus Museum, you should maybe hip her to this whole antique map thing: (http://www.martayanlan.com) there's a lot of maps got printed at Plantin in the 16th century, and we have a bunch in the shop.

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

WOW.

And it's one of my favourite typefaces, to boot.

Thank you, sir.