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Subject: old linotype operator

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Roy Daniels

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Date Posted: 14:51:45 09/25/02 Wed

Hello Dave
I was delighted to see such an extensive forum on a trade I spent most of my life in. I started out as a printer's devil in 1952 at the Sudbury Star in Ontario, Canada. After a six year apprenticeship graduated as a journeyman in 1958. I travelled around Ontario as a lino operator using my hardlearned skills in places like New Liskeard, Wawa and back to Sudbury. I eventually left Sudbury to become a printer in Kitchener, Ontario. I set type here for the last three years linotypes were used to set the paper. Alas, they are all gone. In the museum at the back of the building a lonely model 8 sits. The cams and other moving parts are pinned, some parts were chromed, but it will probably never work again.
I still work as a printer. Setting ads, scanning pictures, sending pages to a satellite plant as our old Goss letterpress is no longer with us.
I must say, the trade was interesting, the people great, I will eventually pull the plug and really retire, but the lessons I learned as a printer will stay with me.
Good luck with your site, Dave . . . I think it is great. I know I bookmarked it.
etaoin shrdlu
Roy

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