After typesetting and page layout, we could print the "Bornhemsche Gazet", "more or less" the way it was done on July 21th 1831, Belgian Independence Day. The press we used is 40 years younger, the Monotype Caster about 70, but who cares as long as we could advertise our Museum to some hundreds of thousands of possible visitors.
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(July 20th-21th 2007 Bornhemsche Gazet / Fata Morgana letterpress project for the Museum of Industrial Archeology and Textile (MIAT) in Ghent, Belgium, by Erik Desmyter, Patrick Goossens, Gilbert Decorte and Jos Pastijn. Video 3/4)
Gelukkig ging het daarna een beetje sneller.
annesavat 4 years ago