[geeks] How can people put up with this....

jodys at helluin.org jodys at helluin.org
Thu Aug 8 13:33:42 CDT 2002


On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 02:27:45PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:49:00AM -0600, jodys at helluin.org wrote:
> 
> > > You mean you have the custom engrave a printing plate?
> > > 
> > I figured if I ever got married I'd get the invitations done
> > by a, for lack of a better word, retroprinter. Find someone
> > who hand sets the type and uses a manually operated press, 
> > and if I had enough money I would have them done on a high
> > quality handmade paper. Anyways, just a thought.
> 
> Yes, sounds good.  By why letter set when you can get someone to hand
> engrave a plate?  Although, personally, I think laser engraving and a
> manually operatered gutenburg style press are the perfect combination. 

Mostly because I like handset type. I know engraving approaches if
not exceedes the quality of hand set type, but I still prefer
the old school approach. And I'd imagine that if you payed for it
the printer may give you the set type in it's block (or whatever
the term is for that).

Jody



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