| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION emerged And some elected to install their own offset presses Ashbypaper came off MurrayGoss Community for some time and then was printed in-house ontwo-page sheet-fed Harris LTN for several years Eventually4-unit Fairchild News King web was put into operation But thatanother story of trial and error and sleepless nights Ashby smiles One wonders what the next step might be in technological changes in our industry Manti publisher Call described what most converting newspapers learned about the value of their letterpress equipment Whenbought the Sanpete papers we were setting grocery ads in 14 point onModel 14 Linotype then blowing it up about 200 he explains We set type on Variatypers withkind of ticker-tape that printed out the copy We set heads onMorisawa an incredible relic where you sent through copy one letter attime The next step was into the Compugraphic world he added We boughtCompugraphic 7200 two Juniors and eventuallyCompugraphic With the 7200 for heads the Linotype became surplus We tried to findbuyer but couldn We tried to give it away unsuccessfully We couldnget it out the front door either so we spentday with sledge hammers and tools and busted it in pieces We couldneven get scrap metal prices for it so we simply took it to the dump piece attime We managed to sell the mats for scrap brass but that was the end of letterpress Perhaps Mac McConaughy echoed Callobservations best in his column AntEye View during the early 70s Said the Morgan County News publisher What in the cotton pickin world is happening to all the retired hot-metal print shop material Think of the thousands of empty galleys in Utah Can we sell them to bakeries for making pizza long instead of round What about the hundreds of thousands of linotype mats Shall we opennational drive to put brass into the new pen nies 234 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
