Flongging Frank
Frank discusses one of the enabling technologies of the printing industry: stereotyping. It gave us faster reprints of books and allowed presses to print at high speeds from rolls of paper. Stereotype molds were called flongs. The modern print enabler is PDF.
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Discussion
By Diane Dragoff on Mar 04, 2024
Thanks Frank! Great Scrabble word!
Seems like you'd have to have a very deft hand to pour hot lead onto papier mache. PDFs seem infinitely more useable.
By Joe Treacy on Mar 04, 2024
That "What price Victory" page is a great mold.
So terrific that the Museum of Printing is preserving these vital artifacts like flongs, reminding us of how creative thinking leads to incredible innovations in the graphic arts.
And, that we all benefit from having the mercurial Frank Romano on hand to explain it all. ??????
Joe Treacy
President & Director of Typography
Treacyfaces.com