COLD PRESS

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
i wrote some books and gave away library. i like to think that every poem is a love poem. i believe that "No" is a full sentence. i used to collect old books and young cats. i don't like noisy people, places or things. my three favourite words: yes, please, thank you. my favourite punctuation mark is the colon: i have a beautiful cat, a bicycle, an old typewriter, and a ladle. these things make me happy.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

COLD PRESS ::: You might ask, "What is a 'cold press"? ::: The simplest explanation is that it was a newspaper's Typesetter's term when newspapers the world over were set by hand in tiny individual letters engraved upon metal slugs, which were of course cold. It was a painstaking work of manual labour getting all those slugs lined up correctly and in order, then sent down to the printing presses which then rolled out the day's paper in print form. These were eventually replaced by a compugraphic machine which was not all that different than looking at a precursor to a kind of "computer". I remember one newspaper I worked for in the early days where I was sent to take a course through Compugraphic Canada Ltd. by my then Editor as I was the only one on the staff who knew how to use an electric typewriter. That's the short of it, hence Cold Press.

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