Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catalogue paper was handmade in England; fine old castoff linen shirts from Italy provided its basic rag stock. The ink, pure lampblack carbon and linseed oil unadulterated by modern aniline dyes, was specially ground in Germany in 1928. A new type font was designed by Jan van Krimpen, cast in The Netherlands. Two three-ton hand presses were shipped from England to Pittsburgh for the actual printing...
...Concessions. By machine-age standards, the catalogue was assembled with painful slowness. Each sheet of paper had to be dampened before it was printed, the putty-like ink endlessly kneaded. On a good day, three workmen could turn out no sheets, sometimes had to destroy several days' work because of the belated discovery of a single typographical error. Whole sections were jettisoned when scholars turned up new historical details about some of the paintings...
Last week, with nine volumes to go, Helen Frick had made a few concessions to modern times. Up-to-date substitutes would replace the castoff Italian shirts and the made-to-order German ink, no longer available. Using a modern mechanical press instead of the slow-moving hand presses, catalogue supervisors hoped to finish their...
...room on the first level of Lamont Library, type and rollers as yet unstained by ink stand idly by along with shiny new aluminum frames and a scratchless done of white marble. All that is lacking to turn the room into a bustling plant is the appearance of undergraduates who wish to make the art of printing an avocation...
...Welte Co. had perfected an electrical machine which recorded the piano in a new way. Rolls were lined and printed with electrically conductive ink instead of being perforated like ordinary player-piano rolls. A companion machine was placed in front of the keyboard and a battery of 88 felt-padded mechanical fingers fitted over the keys, playing the music back with all the expression and personality of the original performer. There was Debussy playing some of his Preludes and his Children's Corner Suite; Saint-Saëns, Faure, Grieg, Scriabin, Falla, Granados, Richard Strauss and Mahler performing their...