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Originally Posted by wolf441
What about the actual printing plates? Would they have been destroyed once the production run was completed? I'm not familiar with the printing process in general, so I'm not even sure of what material these plates would have been made out of?
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There were two types in use at the time.
The older process used stones, actual special limestone blocks usually from Germany. Figure sheet plus maybe 4-6 inches in size and about 3-4 inches thick. Unless the job was being printed constantly these were resurfaced after the job was done since they were expensive, and took up a lot of room.
The other was the new metal plates. Usually aluminum surfaced with a limestone like surface that would hold water.
Those could be saved, but usually weren't.
Ours went in a stack to be recycled. The small ones made really great dustpans. The large ones were good for stuff like a doghouse roof or new flashing over the gutters...........You just had to remember that like the foil hat shiny side out worked best.
Steve B
02-07-2013, 10:10 AM
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