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MMOP - A FEW PICTURES
PEOPLE HAVING FUN AND LEARNING
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TITLE PAGE. Composed by hand, printed by hand.


Four ladies from Scotland, discovering a printing press.


A group of students from a Hong Kong university on an internship program.


A dozen practitioners from around Australia attended TYPE CAMP MELBOURNE: their instructor, from Brazil, is on the right.


The annual "AG Ideas" convention made a practical excursion to MMOP.


The MMOP wide-format poster series

Design Students from a NSW High School attended the Graphic Students' Workshop

HAPPY WITH THEIR DAY'S WORK

THE FINER POINTS OF PAGE MAKE-UP

DESIGN STUDENT'S RANDOM POSTER

A PAGE OF LINOTYPE SETTING AND ITS PROOF

HOT-METAL TYPESETTING MACHINERY: Ludlow Typograph (rear view, at left); Linotype and Intertype (at right)

The Linotype (side view, showing melting pot), compositors' saw, and Ludlow Typograph (in background)
MMOP IS A GREAT LOCATION

Click this link to see a few shots of a film crew at work at MMOP. This is not a new experience . . . many scenes of TV or educational video have been filmed at MMOP sites. MMOP has also provided many props for other locations, varying from printing machinery to vintage computers.



THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN

SHOWROOM VIEW 2011

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Initiated Nov 2015