Last week Libre Livre was lucky enough to be offered some second-hand type at a very ccompetitive price by a retired printer who just chanced to be walking by our workshop. The only snag is that he wants to keep the trays in which it is held.
For those who don;t know, a type tray is a wooden tray about 30 inches long and 14 wide. It is divided up into around 75 compartments to keep each letter and character separate. To empty one tray into another (no, you can't just swap them over, type trays come in matching sets) takes about two hours laboriously picking up the contents of each compartment with tweezers and transferring those that don't ping away to the correspondong compartment in the other tray. And I've got 14 trays to do. Ahhhhh
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