tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24371524.post6462743655430148853..comments2023-07-03T09:11:06.656-07:00Comments on LMLK Blogspot: G.M. & Gutenberg's MachineG.M. Grenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715203546886901296noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24371524.post-44709526372239276852012-07-25T09:54:12.873-07:002012-07-25T09:54:12.873-07:00I have a double page replica produced by the museu...I have a double page replica produced by the museum in Mainz using the printing firm Universitats-druckerei H. Sturz AG in Wurzburg under the direction of Karl Klingspor. The museum brochure, which measures 16-1/2 X 12 inches, says the text was printed in letterpress with the initials and flourishes in offset and relief printing with genuine gold gilding...looks spectacular...any additional info?dave goslernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24371524.post-33468347244760886022010-10-24T18:01:57.802-07:002010-10-24T18:01:57.802-07:00For anyone interested, The Dale Guild Type Foundry...For anyone interested, The Dale Guild Type Foundry's new webpage can be found at www.thedaleguild.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07702722251115904709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24371524.post-8552271645340846642010-05-23T15:43:35.082-07:002010-05-23T15:43:35.082-07:00I do appreciate your glowing commentary on the wor...I do appreciate your glowing commentary on the work of Kitty Maryatt's hand-setting a B-42 page, and your just comments on the thankless Brits who scripted said movie and the "lack of" credits at the film's end. Fry, in all his travels around his own Island and his trips back and forth to Germany, failed to mention the fact that even a recasting of the B-42 types were unavailable in England, Germany, Holland, France or anywhere else in Europe. Press-makers, paper-makers and foundry-type compositors are to be found in almost all European countries as well as the UK "states." The ironic fact is, that were it not for the Japanese Toppan publishers in Tokyo, and the two working members of the Dale Guild in the USA (AD 2000), all of the oohs & aahs exhaled in the movie as the sheet of paper was pulled from the form of type, would have been rather anti-climatic. The entire film would have been moot if they did not have a visual explanation of the really world changing invention of individual hand-set MOVABLE types. Without the Dale Guild's monumental efforts, they would have had the single lower-case "e" ("now that I have cast the type" -Fry) and a photo-engraving on a sheet of zinc or magnesium glued to a piece of wood. This is what almost every printing museum in the world is forced to use, including the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz to portray the 1st Printer. Imagine trying to get emotional about an impression from a sheet of zinc. Fry; "The one thing I can't wait to see is how it (the press) actually prints." Prints what?! A single type or maybe Caslon Old Face, Gill Sans or Cloister Black? It is not just we Americans that are taken for granted in the film, but the existence of foundry type in any design imaginable!<br /><br />The real story is that the film makers contacted the Dale Guild with there request for a font of B-42 types "A WHOLE MONTH" before they would be shooting the "printing scene!" Type has always been taken for granted except by those making it. Fust was the first to do so, and all "producers" since, have followed in his footsteps. Anyway, we couldn't have possibly done the job in the allotted time-frame. We were busy casting a font of the typeface in question for another customer. Ms. Maryatt agreed to set the page from her existing Dale Guild B-42 font for the film makers only if we, the foundry, would promise to replace half of her 2pp font we had cast for her a year or two earlier. Had we not just begun the casting of a B-42 font for another customer, we could not have made her that promise, as it is far from profitable to cast and hand-finish a one-page font. Hence, the film-fakers -I mean- makers, would not have had their needed types in time. A serious question regarding the film's validity would have arisen in the offices of the BBC, and the reputation of the film's makers would have been tenuous at best.<br /><br />Here endth but a small portion of the behind the scenery of "Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press."<br /><br />acwUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16540975169240000024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24371524.post-36172464697378030632009-01-29T08:48:00.000-08:002009-01-29T08:48:00.000-08:00It look very hi-tech. A machine form by pieces.It look very hi-tech. A machine form by pieces.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com