![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve spent plenty of time “on press” - dwarfed by the massive, clanking, churning machines on all sides, like a kid surrounded by a lot full of school buses. I worked at the frontier of digital publishing and my all-digital operation became a significant advantage for the textbook company I worked for. But somewhere, there was always a machine making things. I’ve bought millions of dollars worth of that stuff. In the startups I worked at in the eighties and nineties, it wasn’t enough to work with words I had to work with designers and printers, too, because we were actually making things: boxes, manuals, diskettes with stickers on them, Tyvek envelopes, and bound four-color printed textbooks. While I didn’t work with lead, I did the next best thing - I set type (digitally) and did pasteup for the program book of the World Science Fiction Convention, Noreascon Two, in 1979. Ink is in my blood. My grandfather was a linotype operator for the long-gone Philadelphia Bulletin (an afternoon paper) he worked with hot lead and his hands were so tough he could pick up a hot potato and not feel it. I’ve got detailed knowledge of an obsolescing technology. I’ve got a long history in the print business. ![]()
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