Harry McIntosh’s Speedspools has reached its Golden Anniversay. He has been in business producing type for 50 years, since 1967 — and for many years to come at the Chepman and Myllar press in Edinburgh. Congratulations!
More about Monotype
January 18, 2015 by
More than 60 issues of the Monotype recorder journal have been added to the Metal Type website in PDF format. It was the trade magazine published by the Monotype Corporation, and was published for about 70 years from 1902. There is also a discussion about the journal on the Metal Type Forum.
Monotype event
January 5, 2015 by
The working machinery of Monotype’s hot-metal service is housed and operated from the Type Archive in London. The Printing Historical Society is sponsoring an event. It was originally announced that this would be held on Monday 19 January, but it has been postponed and it will now take place on Monday 23 February at the […]
New book on Monotype Corporation
November 1, 2014 by
On 13 November 2014, the Vanbrugh Press will publish History of the Monotype Corporation by Judy Slinn, Sebastian Carter, Richard Southall and edited by Andrew Boag & Christopher Burke. This new book will illustrated the history of the British Monotype Corporation in its significant years from 1897 to 1992, with three sections covering the corporation’s […]
Visit to the Chepman and Myllar Press
September 26, 2012 by
A recent post on Keith Houston’s blog on punctuation marks, ‘Shady Characters’ included an account of his meeting with Harry McIntosh of the Chepman and Myllar press in Edinburgh. Harry McIntosh uses the hot metal Monotype casting system for typesetting, but uses a computer, rather than a Monotype keyboard to set text. You can visit […]
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