IBM Typewriter Document Creation & Old Typeface Digitisation

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Slappy

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September 06, 2014, 01:17:58 PM
I just came across a mention of an app called Glyphs that's apparently popular in the font design community. Supposed to be pretty affordable, and has a 30 Day demo too.
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frailer

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September 07, 2014, 08:39:08 PM
Off-Topic, but about 15+ years ago I had an IBM golf-ball typewriter, handed down from FIL's office. Got sick of looking at it in the storage cupboard. Damn I wish I'd kept it. Weighed about 15 Kg., from memory. Beautiful thing.
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Slappy

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September 11, 2014, 12:17:47 PM
Look, you too can be a hipster dooooosh and lug this around to the local coffee shop so people know how fuckin' cool you are!!!

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September 11, 2014, 12:28:02 PM
700 bones? Not that cool.
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Possum

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September 11, 2014, 12:29:23 PM
Wonder if they'll buy my 1947 Smith Corona. They have to get their stock somewhere.
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September 11, 2014, 12:31:41 PM
I have a 1970s edition Smith Corona electric. My Dad used it until the day he died. It's in great shape, and I even have the travel case.
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#21
September 11, 2014, 01:01:09 PM
One owner and one secretary in the front office both still have a typewriter and use it daily even though one has a 21.5" iMac and the other has a Windows 7 PC right next to it and both have access to multiple laser printers.
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September 11, 2014, 01:02:56 PM
Boss has 2 laptops on his desk and uses a pen and paper to do quotes.
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September 11, 2014, 07:38:19 PM
Quote from: Blaze1 on August 19, 2014, 04:02:23 PM
Quote from: Possum on August 18, 2014, 12:02:56 PMTo answer your first question, even before phototypesetting, people used to use rubber cement on pasteups instead of wax. It didn't bleed through the paper, so that's probably what was used with your typewritten copy.
What prevented the edges of the paste-ups from being visible on the finished page, lack of definition?
Opaque and litho tape. :grin:
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frailer

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September 14, 2014, 07:37:47 PM
Quote from: Sabrina The Turd Polisher on September 11, 2014, 07:38:19 PM
Quote from: Blaze1 on August 19, 2014, 04:02:23 PM
Quote from: Possum on August 18, 2014, 12:02:56 PMTo answer your first question, even before phototypesetting, people used to use rubber cement on pasteups instead of wax. It didn't bleed through the paper, so that's probably what was used with your typewritten copy.
What prevented the edges of the paste-ups from being visible on the finished page, lack of definition?
Opaque and litho tape. :grin:

... on my last roll of 12mm litho tape. I'm using it to keep plate sets together.
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