Comments on: Printers’ Terminology https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 02 Sep 2017 15:08:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Eric Armstrong https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-1166577 Sat, 02 Sep 2017 15:08:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-1166577 Your blog revived wonderful memories of my life as a compositor. I started work aged 15 as a printers devil in 1949. While the point system of type sizes was universal then l was always fascinated by pre point system type faces and the wonderful names they were called e.g. Pearl, Ruby and other exotic names which l can no longer remember, happy days.

]]> By: Howard Lane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-516728 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:20:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-516728 The old proof reader who worked for the Sunday Times and also came in and read for us when I worked at a printers in Holborn always called a desk a “frame”, i.e. the frame that held the lines of type in place. “I’ll put it on your frame” he said in his broad Scots accent, after he had proof read the text for the next print run.

]]> By: Jane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-516333 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:47:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-516333 Another fascinating post, thank you

]]> By: Mervyn Cripps https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-514687 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:04:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-514687 They have a Wayzgoose in Grimsby, Ontario each spring. It is mainly for those who mainly print small books by hand-set type and letterpress printing, then binding them into books for sale. Very artsy, but individually professional quality. Excellent.
http://www.grimsby.ca/Art-Gallery/Wayzgoose

]]> By: Leslie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-514173 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:24:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-514173 Gorgeous list, thank you! I’m going to adopt the term “floor pie” for any mess that’s been dropped on the floor. Leslie

]]> By: Nina Archer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-513970 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:11:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-513970 … I forwarded this very interesting article to a friend who only retired from the print trade in the last five years and he replied straight away saying that he went on a wayzgoose to Scarborough at the last place he worked for, so that is a word I had never heard before and yet it is still being used in printing circles today …

]]> By: Rosemary Hoffman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-513798 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:28:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-513798 Fascinating !

]]> By: Graham Moss https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-513719 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:42:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-513719 The Oxford Guild of Printers, donkeys, pigs, and all, will be having their Wayzgoose at Oxford Brooks University on November 11th. Free entry and all welcome.

]]> By: steve clarke https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-513686 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:21:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-513686 Surprised the etymology of the word THE PRESS describing journalists on a paper was not included. Just guessing that it arose from the printing process.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/17/printers-terminology/#comment-513668 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:09:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=120487#comment-513668 My father has been a publisher his whole life and so I was always interested in these things too. Fascinating!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

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