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Article: Their type never seems to change. (Colby Poster Printing Co.) (company profile)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 6, 1989
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1989 CBJ, L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Their type never seems to change
In an era of desk-top publishing, computer typesetting and quick-print shops on every corner, Los Angeles' Colby Poster Printing Co. uses technology that was introduced before Christopher Columbus was born.
Family-run Colby Poster is one of a handful of companies nationwide that still prints poster using hand-set wood and metal type and an antiquated letterpress printing press, dinosaurs in a computer-driven information age.
A year ago it replaced a four-ton Miehle letterpress built in 1895 with a newer, lighter model, built in 1917. Much of the type is hand-carved from maple wood and older than the business itself, which was ...
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