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Ned Simmons wrote:

There's another in a Portland ME art press run by a guy named David
Wolfe. My daughter works for him occasionally in return for access to
his shop for her own projects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZimWIe8sLA

There are a couple of excellent videos showing the operation of Linotype
machines at:

http://www.archive.org/details/Typesett1960

and

http://www.archive.org/details/Typesett1960_2

They're downloadable in full resolution, and explain quite a bit of how
the machines worked. I found the use of multiple wedges to expand the
line, in order to justify it, particularly ingenious.


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Norman Yarvin http://yarchive.net