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| DID YOU KNOW? | (Some key facts about the Museum) |
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Pardon us as we build this site, for any shortcomings.For example, many detail files are incomplete, but included to show
the breadth of subject matter we intend to cover. And we will have lots
more illustrations of our machines and artefacts. |
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COLLECTIONMap of our collections |
PROGRAMSMap of our Programs |
OUR GLOSSARYMap of our Glossary files |
ABOUT USMap of our About files |
OTHER THEMESMap of everything else including Printing Industry | |
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| machines of all kinds | education programs | Glossary Index | our addresses | print and museum links | |
| founts - type and mats | access studio | our mission | |||
| other printing items | public programs | volunteering | printmaking - art with presses | ||
| other collections | newspaper project | other files about us | our typefoundry | ||
HEAD OF SITE MAP | |
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JUMP PAGES Themed pages with links to collection, program and other areas. |
Typography & Design |
| D.T.P. or Word Processing | |
| Book History | |
| Media & Editing | |
| Self Printing | |
| Print Making | |
| Letterpress Freaks | |
The Museum's COLLECTION PAGES | ||
with fuller descriptions for each division and section. | ||
| TYPESETTING MACHINES SECTION: machines which produce metal type, composed ready to print. | The Linotype: a linecaster, using a keyboard to arrange recirculating matrices | |
| Intertype: identical in function to the Linotype | ||
| Ludlow: a linecaster using hand-set matrices | ||
| Nebitype: identical in function to the Ludlow | ||
| Monotype: a typecaster which makes new single types composed ready to print | ||
| TYPECASTING MACHINES SECTION: machines which produce single types in bulk, for hand typesetting. | Monotype Supercaster: similar in principle to the Monotype Composition caster, but makes the one letter until interrrupted: produces type up to 72 point body, also rules and continuous borders. | |
| Thompson Type Caster: makes types up to 36 point body. | ||
| Trader Horn Typecaster: a hand operated casting box adjustable for type bodies up to 72 points. | ||
| PRE-PRESS EQUIPMENT SECTION: Computer typesetters and other items which produce lettering or images on film or paper; cameras, platemakers, processors: items which produce or handle images for photo-based printing. | Cameras: various brands and vintages of process camera. These are used to make large format negatives or bromides from artwork. | |
| Desk-Top Publishing: based on PC's or MacIntosh computers, these systems bring good typography to everyone's desktop. | ||
| Phototypesetters: There were several processes and many different systems by which an operator could produce high quality letter-forms on film. They were not all electronic. | ||
| Monophoto System: Produced by the Monotype Corporation as their answer to phototypesetting: earliest models functioned just like the Monotype Composition Caster but put an image on film instead of pumping molten metal. | ||
| Platemakers: Some produce a plate direct from artwork; others make it from a negative. | ||
| Processors: these are automatic developing units to develop the films and bromides output by cameras and phototypesetters. | ||
| Strike-On Typesetters: These are like high-quality typewriters, and capable of producing justified text with variable spacing. | ||
| PRINTING MACHINES SECTION: Letterpress platen and cylinder presses and proofers; Offset presses, photocopiers. Label press. Hot Foil Stamping presses. | ADANA Presses: Small presses produced by Adana Printing Machines in England. | |
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| OTHER MACHINES SECTION | Elrod Stripcaster: makes strips of extruded material in typemetal, either rules (typehigh) for printing straight lines or leads (under type high) for spacing between lines of type. | |
| Nebiolo Stripcaster: Identical in function to the Elrod. | ||
| Folding Machines: There are two main ways to fold by machine: buckle the paper or use a knife-blade. | ||
| Guillotines: Paper Cutters which will handle a pile several inches high | ||
| Other Paper Devices: like joggers, round cornerers, drills, punches, laminators | ||
| Stitching or Stapling Machines: Staplers use pre-formed wire pieces; stitchers make their own from a roll of wire | ||
| Stereotype Equipment: Stereotyping press, casting box, backplaner etc., for making duplicate printing blocks or rubber stamps. | ||
| Type-Related Machines: Examples are the machines to make cross-points for rule-formes, to put security patterns onto typefaces, saw or mitre pieces of type-metal or clean and adjust mats. | ||
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Monotype Founts (as made by our foundry) | |
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Foundry Type Founts (as made in foundries using older equipment) | ||
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Poster Type Founts (usually of wood, and usually over 72 point size) | ||
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Special Types (brass types: types for special processes) | ||
Typecasting Matrix Section: |
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Monotype Supercaster Matrix Founts (usually 14pt to 72 pt) | ||
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Thompson Typecaster Matrix Founts (usually 6 pt to 36 pt) | ||
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Monotype Composition Matrix Founts (usually 5pt to 14pt) | ||
| Linotype and Intertype Matrix Founts | ||
| Ludlow and Nebitype Matrix Founts | ||
| Founts for Cold Typesetting | ||
OFFICE EQUIPMENT | ||
TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT | ||
COMPUTERS FROM 1975 | ||
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Who wants to learn about traditional printing?
Persons who use new technology for design will benefit from seeing how printing and typesetting was done without computers.
Classes and workshops on traditional printing include:
We are not yet open for general visits, but if you really want to have a look around ...
This is a future project. A recreated, full-size composing room as would have been found in major papers around the world. The sights, the sounds, the smell, the hustle and bustle . . .
Artists, writers and poets are welcome to use the museum's types and presses.
Letterpress produces a result unobtainable by laser, offset or photocopying. The paper is deformed by the pressure of individual inked letters.
BOOK LOVERS' AND HISTORIANS' SPECIAL
You may trawl our vast collection of equipment, artefacts and business records for various streams of information: printing, publishing, engineering, design, business methods.
GO TO THE INDEX PAGE TO UNDERSTAND WHICH THEME IS COVERED IN WHICH THEME-PAGE.
OR GO DIRECT TO A PAGE FROM HERE.
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IF YOU KNOW THE NAME OF A TERM, GO TO THE ALPHABETIC PAGE eg to find PICA choose the Alphabetic Page N-Q. You will find several meanings of this word, and that it is mostly used in TYPE MEASUREMENTS. | ||||||||||
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXPLORE OTHER TERMS ABOUT TYPE MEASUREMENTS look in the Thematic Glossary about Typecasting and Type Measurements | ||||||||||
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Our Director, Michael Isaachsen, is compiling this first edition for our site, ably assisted by Alana Wignell. We would be glad of help for later editions. There is much more detail to add.
Many pages are unfinished, and many more yet to be started. Even so, it is hoped that viewers will gain a useful impression of the range of our collection and services, as well as an interesting overview of the craft of `real printing'.
" . . . not just to preserve the machines but to provide an ambience in which experienced printers will be inspired to pass on their knowledge and practical experience."
Australian Type Company, Australia's last typefoundry, converted its collection into a museum. OUR TYPE FOUNDRY
MAP OF EVERYTHING ELSE |
LINKS MAPprint and museum links |
PRINTING INDUSTRY MAP |
PRINTMAKING MAP- art with presses |
OUR TYPEFOUNDRY |
| PRINTING INDUSTRY INDEX |
The pages will include history and descriptions of the machines and processes which allowed printing to become an effective force in society for hundreds of years without any computers.
The HISTORY is mainly in these INDUSTRY PAGES, while the descriptions and operational details are mainly in the COLLECTION PAGES.
| ABOUT PRINTMAKING | ||
| Art with Printing Presses | ||
| THIS SECTION STILL TO BE WRITTEN | ||
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| LETTERPRESS AND MUSEUM LINKS | |||||
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SET UP YOUR OWN PRINT SHOP - OUR SUPPLIES DIVISION | ||
OUR CITY, OUR STATE AND OUR SERVICE PROVIDER | ||
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