Neo-Typesetters

Tue, Jan 27 3:30 P.M. NHPBS (11.1)

Just under fifty years after The NYT transitioned from typesetting and classical printing to computerized layout, the presses remain operable. At a pastoral print shop in Midcoast Maine, this award winning documentary interviews a gentleman who experienced the end of the industry as well as a younger woman who found printing in the modern age and continues to keep the form alive.

Duration: 11 minutes and 50 seconds

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Tue, Jan 27	3:30 P.M.	Neo-Typesetters NHPBS (11.1)

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Just under fifty years after The NYT transitioned from typesetting and classical printing to computerized layout, the presses remain operable.

At a pastoral print shop in Midcoast Maine, we hear from an older gentleman who experienced the end of the industry as well as a younger woman who found printing in the modern age and continues to keep the form alive.