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To: Ilaine who wrote (51613)	6/1/2000 2:54:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I saw pictures when I was fifteen? of how newspapers were printed. The mass printing was done by finished, full-scale pages cast in a single curved piece, I think of linotype or maybe monotype (an even harder alloy of lead, tin, antimony). The finished plates were hemicylinders that mounted on a whacking great roller press. I don't recall how the plates were cast. But their shape looked like it would fit a scaled-up version of Gaugs' bronze artifact. I wonder about the crucial step of preparing a smooth, seamless mold for the actual printing plate from discrete elements, like type or etched photo templates. That must have been hard and exacting work.