December 27, 2012
Right, Justified: Larry Ellis, the last printer at the Monterey County Herald, holds a picture showing himself and the paper’s former news editor, Dave Leonard, circa-1972, in the composing room. “I loved my job. I miss it,” he says.
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The Last Typesetter
After more than 50 years on the job, one printer exited his outsourced position with poetry.
Here are some things they don’t teach much anymore: the use of pica poles and slugs, the meaning of words like hot type and ligatures. And here are some things that were true in 1960, ...
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