The Wayback Thought – Stereotype Plate Making

A trip to our local charity thrift store this calendar week turned upward a surprising treasure:

This is a paper matrix that was used to cast the plate for the September 27, 1971 front end page of our local newspaper. This unopen upward shows how deep the master copy halftone picture (on the left) too type (on the right) were pressed into the paper matrix that would afterward survive covered inwards molten metallic to shape the actual printing plate:

Here is a brusk video clip from 1950 that shows the procedure of making a paper stereotype plate from a paper matrix.

Preview images from the video

Please press the play arrow to thought the video. Note that it may cease for a instant spell the video buffers inwards the background.

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