Melbourne Museum of Printing

Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of traditional printing, both the equipment and the knowledge.

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PICTORIAL JUNE 2003

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Enlarged Picture from the Museum's JUNE 2003 PICTORIAL

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The Museum's business document archive also includes catalogs and samples for many kinds of input for the printing industry.

This centre-spread of photographs shows the assembly line and other features of the works of the Harris-Intertype Company, Slough, England.

The Intertype was the competitor to the Linotype linecasting machine. In many ways the two are identical and most importantly can share the same founts of matrices.

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MUSEUM STOREHOUSE: research treasure, boxed and palletted, waiting to know its fate.

Look up printers' measurements, machinery, materials in our Glossary of Typography. Find the glossary on the MUSEUM'S HOME PAGE (link at top of this page).

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