Regardless of my own inabilities, it was an exciting learning experience. There isn't much that builds more character than doing something people before you had done for centuries to help you not take for granted the technology we have today. The whole course this semester has been that way, in my opinion. It has provided for me a much needed glimpse into the past and all that I would normally never experience. It has probably been the class that has taught me the most, and it has definitely been the most hands on and interesting.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Printing And All Of Its Intricacies
Printing back in the day must have been hard. It was time consuming, difficult, precise, and to put it bluntly, rather boring considering each individual had only piece of the process to perform. Through every piece of the printing process, I had my own struggles. It took multiple tries to get anything right, and even then, to understand the rate at which people used to perform these tasks was daunting knowledge. Old printers could do any task I chose to do three, four or five times in the time it was taking me to do them.
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I couldn't have put it better myself. This entire class has completely opened my eyes to everything that went into making a book in the past they I never would have dreamed of.
ReplyDeleteI think what you said about the monotony of repeating each individual task is interesting. Especially when it comes to what these printers did to entertain themselves. From the playing cards hidden in the bind of a book to the worn out edges of the spacer pieces that were used as dice, it's nice to see that these old printers, while much more qualified, were just like us.