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Into Print | Winter 2004

Printing, Center for the Book collaborate
on new student learning opportunity

Photos by Kristin Baum

Linotype tutorial Linotype preservationist Larry Raid explains the machine's keyboard to, from left, Allison Heady, Cynthia Simpson, and Jessica DeSpain, all UI students. The women were participating in the Center for the Book's December tutorial.

Below, Raid shows Simpson how to position her hands on the keyboard.

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UI graduate student Dory Weiss, above, begins to set type. She learned to operate the Linotype during the December tutorial at the Printing Department.

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Kristin Baum, assistant conservator at UI Libraries and graduate student in the Center for the Book, sets type on the Linotype. A total of nineteen students have attended the Center for the Book's tutorials at the Printing Department. Photo by Jessica DeSpain.

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Nicole Flores, graduate assistant in the Center for the Book, inserts mats into the distributor to complete the process of typesetting. Redistribution is the final part of the Linotype process; keyboard and assembly is the first and typecasting the second.

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