Linotype

[Syphon]

A little before my time....

I will say, the Lino 330 was the absolute epitome of imagesetters. Loved that machine. Not a finer machine of that type in existence; a total workhorse.

The 3030 was a beast and weighed more than a tank. Good times.

Wow, I did not that you were that old, I mean experienced.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

A little before my time....

I will say, the Lino 330 was the absolute epitome of imagesetters. Loved that machine. Not a finer machine of that type in existence; a total workhorse.

The 3030 was a beast and weighed more than a tank. Good times.

Wow, I did not that you were that old, I mean experienced.

He's pretty fucking old. :tongue:

[Joe]

Registration was fine on them as long as you didn't use its own register marks. We used to manually make marks on our Hell Chromacom system and place them on the page. Then the registration was perfect.

[Joe]

A little before my time....

I will say, the Lino 330 was the absolute epitome of imagesetters. Loved that machine. Not a finer machine of that type in existence; a total workhorse.

The 3030 was a beast and weighed more than a tank. Good times.

Wow, I did not that you were that old, I mean experienced.

Me and dirt are good friends. Grew up together.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Registration was fine on them as long as you didn't use its own register marks. We used to manually make marks on our Hell Chromacom system and place them on the page. Then the registration was perfect.

Yeah, tell an 86 year-old stripper to NOT use the marks on the film... hahahahah! I didn't care, we were a Service Bureau. The film rarely registered on a capstan imagesetter. Always a hair off... always. Film stretch being pulled though a processor wet, or running long galleys of film. I never had a problem, but I didn't have to strip anything off it. By the time I got into stripping, I was using film off a drum imagesetter by then, Scitex PS2.

[Syphon]

A little before my time....

I will say, the Lino 330 was the absolute epitome of imagesetters. Loved that machine. Not a finer machine of that type in existence; a total workhorse.

The 3030 was a beast and weighed more than a tank. Good times.

Wow, I did not that you were that old, I mean experienced.

Me and dirt are good friends. Grew up together.

So I take it you helped Moses put the ten commandments on the stone tablets.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

A little before my time....

I will say, the Lino 330 was the absolute epitome of imagesetters. Loved that machine. Not a finer machine of that type in existence; a total workhorse.

The 3030 was a beast and weighed more than a tank. Good times.

Wow, I did not that you were that old, I mean experienced.

Me and dirt are good friends. Grew up together.

So I take it you helped Moses put the ten commandments on the stone tablets.

Yeah, if Moses was around when Adam was. :laugh:

[DigiCorn]

A little before my time....

I will say, the Lino 330 was the absolute epitome of imagesetters. Loved that machine. Not a finer machine of that type in existence; a total workhorse.

The 3030 was a beast and weighed more than a tank. Good times.

Wow, I did not that you were that old, I mean experienced.

Me and dirt are good friends. Grew up together.

So I take it you helped Moses put the ten commandments on the stone tablets.

Yeah, if Moses was around when Adam was. :laugh:

Was that before or after the dinosaurs? He might have a first hand account of how they died.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

A little before my time....

I will say, the Lino 330 was the absolute epitome of imagesetters. Loved that machine. Not a finer machine of that type in existence; a total workhorse.

The 3030 was a beast and weighed more than a tank. Good times.

Wow, I did not that you were that old, I mean experienced.

Me and dirt are good friends. Grew up together.

So I take it you helped Moses put the ten commandments on the stone tablets.

Yeah, if Moses was around when Adam was. :laugh:

Was that before or after the dinosaurs? He might have a first hand account of how they died.

Adam was Cro-Magnon. Eve was a spider-monkey.

[Joe]

Registration was fine on them as long as you didn't use its own register marks. We used to manually make marks on our Hell Chromacom system and place them on the page. Then the registration was perfect.

Yeah, tell an 86 year-old stripper to NOT use the marks on the film... hahahahah! I didn't care, we were a Service Bureau. The film rarely registered on a capstan imagesetter. Always a hair off... always. Film stretch being pulled though a processor wet, or running long galleys of film. I never had a problem, but I didn't have to strip anything off it. By the time I got into stripping, I was using film off a drum imagesetter by then, Scitex PS2.

No, we put the marks on the page and then output film and the marks on the film (for the 86 year old strippers) were the ones made by us...not the imagesetter software. The work always fit but the built in registration marks never did.

And I'm talking about the old 402 imagesetter, not the 3030 which was a drum imagesetter.

[Stiv]

We had 6 Lino's that we sledgehammered into pieces, then hauled out through the shop with a snatch-strap hooked up to a truck and sold for scrap. I kept some nameplates and a couple of pieces of small hardware. We dumped the brass into barrels. Pied all our type into barrels too. The owner kept the Ben Franklin press and we junked the proofing presses. I think he kept a few Mats.

Put in a Lino 330 and a 530.

[Sabrina The Turd Polisher]

I'll never forget when the typeshop I was at bought an early postscript imagesetter, around 1989 (not a Lino, however) and the young smartass salesman threw a floppy at me and said:  "Lino this, quick!"

Glad that "verb" didn't stick around too long!

Compugraphic?

[Sabrina The Turd Polisher]

...strippers.

I miss telling people "I'm a stripper".   

[Sabrina The Turd Polisher]

I used to have to strip in the registration squares at my First Job® in printing (pin-fed forms), and sometimes the job number. Job numbers were 6pt type output to film (on our Linotronic 3600(?)) to fit in that short bit of space to the left of the holes. Those were the days I would find bits of litho tape in the drain after washing my hair.  :laugh:

[gnubler]

...strippers.

I miss telling people "I'm a stripper".   

At the first shop I worked in we found an old VHS tape titled something like "Advanced Stripping Techniques" and joked about what customers would say if we left it on the front counter.

I was a stripper until around 2005. Then I turned 30 and found myself out of a job. :laugh: