Hot metal is still hot-M & H Type Foundry & Letterpress Tour

[cosmoglassworks]

Great video. My family has been in the printing business since the 50's. I grew up around lead type, and we still have the Ludlow my father used to run. While I do all my work in Quark or InDesign now, I'd love to still be able to to print on a letterpress.

[BOPPPPER]

If you want to see more of this subject, have a look at my website about hot metal printing in Edinburgh which is the website of 'The Adventures of the Gutenberg Boys'. Just Google The Gutenberg Boys.

[zacha83]

I love how at 3:40 she makes it sound like hot lead is cutting edge (and it's justhand composing that's hopelessly outdated)

[treborif]

when i was an apprentice i set a 4 letter word on the ludlow and 4 lettered it up, got a big splash which squirted upwards and joined the other hunks of burnt lead on the ceiling - ive still got that 4 letter slug.

[iPoderification]

I would like to that work, - regrettably I scrapped 5 privately owned Monotype Casting machines and all their ancillary components.

[wyaldrapress]

Great video, I have only seen one mono going and that was at the school of Graphic Arts in Sydney in the 1950's.

Have used mono that came from a trade house but mostly used Lino. Arthur in OZ

[fremlinskent]

I do like letterpress. When I was 14 (26 years ago), I had an Adana 5x3, then I was really lucky and managed to get a Cropper Charlton. There is something special about letterpress when compared with offset litho, the type, composing and so on.

[keithwbt]

Superb video. Did my 6 year apprenticeship on the monotype caster in the 60's in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.