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- September 1996
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- 1Issue No. 193
- January 1996
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- The Conference at Buena Park
Richard L. Hopkins - Dates Set for Charlotte Meeting
Richard L. Hopkins - The Linecaster Technical Session
John Kristensen - "Gone Home" (Obituaries)
Richard L. Hopkins - Dating Things Typographic
Richard L. Hopkins - English Preservation Efforts
Richard L. Hopkins - The First Monotype University
Paul Hayden Duensing - It Was of Mythical Proportions
Lisa Beth Robinson - It Took Me Five Seconds to Decide to Go
Christopher Stern - The Epitome of Personalized Instruction
Howard Bratter - A Time of Focused Enthusiasm
Dan Jones - Rich's Postscript
Richard L. Hopkins - Matrices Equipment For Sale
- On Reviving Cincinnati Initials
Howard Bratter - What's New from the Typecasters
- Correspondence
- Technical Matters
- Product For Preventing Type Rust
Richard L. Hopkins - Treating Medical Burns
Richard L. Hopkins - Comments on ATF Liquidation
- A Self-Contained Cooling System
Jim Walczak - Cutting Punches for Regulus
Dan Carr - The Joy of Taming a Thompson
John A. Hern, Jr. - The Pinmark Re-Emerges
Richard L. Hopkins - Ripley's Linotype "Believe It Or Not"
Richard L. Hopkins - Mergenthaler Stamp To Be Issued (At Last!)
Richard L. Hopkins - Extremely Rare Lanston Matrix Case
Richard L. Hopkins - Dispelling Caslon Myths
Richard L. Hopkins - The Nitty-Gritty Detail of Typographic Production
Richard L. Hopkins
- 1Issue No. 183
- June 1994
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- A Painful Tale to Recount
Richard L. Hopkins - July Conference in California a 'Go'
Richard L. Hopkins - American Type Founders Company: A Troubled Report On Its Demise
Richard L. Hopkins - Odds 'n Ends Tell of ATF's Far-Flung History
Richard L. Hopkins - ATF Tools & Implements Preserved
Richard L. Hopkins - The Barth Was One Reason for ATF's Quality But Matrices Also Played a Crucial Role
Richard L. Hopkins - Earliest Lanston Patent Books Saved
Richard L. Hopkins - Wild Suppositions Give Way to Scientific Study: On the Hardness of Type Metal
David W. Peat - Obviously the Work of a Lifetime: Monumental Type 'Bible' Now Available
Richard L. Hopkins - Lead Ain't Dead
Richard L. Hopkins - A Reference Every Typecaster Will Cherish: Long-Awaited Rehak Book is Published
Richard L. Hopkins - Unique Monotype Fonts Acquired
John Eickhoff - Study Program Proposed For Typecasting Aspirants
Richard L. Hopkin - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statiflics 1925 Report: Lead Poisoning Is Statistically Remote
Richard L. Hopkins - Our Readers Write!
- Jim Rimmer Uses Lanston Punches To Strike 'Goudy Bible' Matrices
Jim Rimmer - Classifieds
- Issue No. 17
- July 1993
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- Issue No. 16
- April 1992
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- Issue No. 15
- November 1991
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- 1Issue No. 143
- July 1990
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- Preface
Richard L. Hopkins - History of Machine Type Casting
David Bruce, Jr. - A Plea for the Tramp Printer
F. Marion - A Plea for Printers
Duncan F. Young - Typesetting Contest
The Inland Printer - "... Purely An Inventor's Dream"
Paper and Press - The "Blower" Linotype
The Inland Printer - The New Form of Mergenthaler
American Bookmaker - The Mergenthaler Linotype Printing-Machine
Paper and Press - The Rogers Typograph
Paper and Press - The "Triangle" Monotype Machine
Richard L. Hopkins - Hamilton Manufacturing Company Advertisement, 1890
- Related Activity in the Industry in 1890
Richard L. Hopkins - MacKeller, Smith, & Jordan Company, French Script Font Advertisement, 1890
- MacKeller, Smith, & Jordan Company, Stipple Font Advertisement, 1890
- Issue No. 13
- April 1990
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- Issue No. 12
- April 1998
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- Issue No. 11
- April 1986
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- 1Issue No. 103
- November 1984
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- Conference Captures 'Fellowship' Spirit
Richard L. Hopkins - Some Information on Back Issues for You and Bibliographers
Richard L. Hopkins - A Sterling Type Foundry Partner
Richard L. Hopkins - Complete Alphabet Showings of Two Original Metal Designs Are Revealed by Jim Rimmer
Richard L. Hopkins - Linotype is the Subject of Dissertation
Richard L. Hopkins - The Bruce Legacy to Typefounding
Stephen O. Saxe - Typecasting Activities, Publications Noted
Richard L. Hopkins - McGrew's Compilation of Lanston Monotype Matrices Alphabetized
Mac F. McGrew - The 'Myth' About Metal Hardness
Richard L. Hopkins - The Why of Lead, Tin & Antimony
Richard L. Hopkins - Letters Relate Varied Activities, Interests
- Gerald Giampa, Jim Rimmer Prepare Exceptional Cover and Insert
Richard L. Hopkins - Lieberman Endowment Established
Richard L. Hopkins - Recent History, Yet So Very Long Ago
Richard L. Hopkins - 'Unknown' References Held in Stephen Saxe Collection
Richard L. Hopkins - Nelson Perfecting Traditional Process
Richard L. Hopkins - Computer Aids Hand Composition
Richard L. Hopkins - Who Designed Helvetica? Gertraude Knows
Jeoff Lindsay - English Member Acquires a Typograph Caster
Richard L. Hopkins - Unnecessary Machine Adjustments
Richard L. Hopkins - More Letters
- Media Reports: ATF Meeting, Stan Nelson
Richard L. Hopkins - Where to Next?
Richard L. Hopkins - A Brief History of Lanston Monotype
Richard L. Hopkins - British History to Come Later
Richard L. Hopkins - Your Classifieds
- Specimen Books Arrive; 'Wish List' Being Compiled
Richard L. Hopkins
- 1Issue No. 93
- May 1984
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- D.C. Conference Set for June 21-24
Richard L. Hopkins - European Hand Type Still Available
Guy Botterill - Will Your Hobby Shop Outlast You?
Richard L. Hopkins - Monotype Casters Take Back Seat to Microcomputer-Temporarily
Richard L. Hopkins - The Printers Composition Matrix Its History and Development
Richard E. Huss - A VIP Tour of Monotype International No Serious Type Caster Will Ever Forget!
Richard L. Hopkins - A Tyro's Thoughts About Oxford Meeting
Paul Quyle - 'Typographically Famous' at Oxford Conference
Paul H. Duensing - Press Operator Receives Grant
Richard L. Hopkins - Typefounder from India Visits U.S.A.
Richard L. Hopkins - Relocated Monotype Equipment To Be Used in Book Arts Teaching
Richard L. Hopkins - Difference in Making Own Lino Mats Explained
Barney Rabin - English Linotype Organization Still Offering Matrices for Sale
Richard L. Hopkins - Monotype Tech Manuals Offered
Richard L. Hopkins - Lanston's Matrix Numbering Explained
Mac F. McGrew - Seeking Equipment? Perhaps Here Are Some Leads
Richard L. Hopkins - 'I Dreamed of Casting My Type...' and Other Letters
Richard L. Hopkins - Making Paper by Hand-Since the 17th Century
Roy Rice - Classified Ads
- U.S. Comp Matrix Production Continue—Facilities Now in California at Mackenzie-Harris
Richard L. Hopkins - Historic Matrices, Early Literature, Traditional Process Demonstrated
Richard L. Hopkins - Sterling Type Foundry Tradition to Be Continued-Dave Churchman Buys Plant, Moves It to Indianapolis
Richard L. Hopkins - Original Font Cut in Lead, Matrices Are Electroformed
Jim Rimmer - Various Private and Commercial Typecasting Projects Reported
Richard L. Hopkins
- 1Issue No. 83
- January 1983
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- Oxford Meeting is Great Success
Richard L. Hopkins - A Word About How This Thing Goes Together
Richard L. Hopkins - Indian Foundry is 'Discovered'
Richard L. Hopkins - A Hidden Meaning?
Richard L. Hopkins - What Others Are Doing and Saying
- The Hansestadt Letterfoundry
- Sterling Type Foundry Prop Dies; STF to Close
Richard L. Hopkins - On Keeping Old Machines Alive
Richard L. Hopkins - GAM Features Tom Lyons’ Shop
Richard L. Hopkins - Printer's Composition Matrix
Richard E. Huss - Moving a Caster Isn't an Impossible Task
Richard L. Hopkins - A Pro Will 'Beat the Book' Every Time
Richard L. Hopkins - Mail-Order Mat Cases
Richard L. Hopkins - Hartzell Will No Longer Make Matrices
80-Year Commercial Manufacturing Era Coming to End
Richard L. Hopkins - Classified Listings
- 1Issue No. 73
- February 1982
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- Special Conference in Britain Proposed
Richard L. Hopkins - Postscript to ATF Article in Last Issue
Richard L. Hopkins - Some Laughs & Some Serious Concern
Richard L. Hopkins - The Haas Typefoundry—World’s Oldest Operation Continues Tradition of Letterfounding
Richard L. Hopkins - Printing News Tells of ATF
Richard L. Hopkins - Death Claims Pioneer Private Typecaster; Shop Virtually Lost! Harry Weidmann
Richard L. Hopkins - Collectors Face Good Guys & Bad Guys
Richard L. Hopkins - Classifieds Ads
- Reviewing Bruce's First Patent
Richard L. Hopkins - What Other Typecasters Are Doing & Saying
- Useful Tidbit for Persons Importing Matrices
Richard L. Hopkins - Former Thompson Mat Source
Richard L. Hopkins - Missing, Missing. There Always Seems to be One Mat Missing
Richard L. Hopkins - A Giant of a Hot-Metal Shop Slowly Fades Into Silent Oblivion
Richard L. Hopkins - Wintertime Uses for Old Type
Richard L. Hopkins - Richard E. Huss Proposes Book on 'The Composition Matrix'
Richard L. Hopkins - Piccoli Suggests Logo
Richard L. Hopkins - Type Designs Cast by ATF Members
Richard L. Hopkins - Thirty 15×17 Monotypes to be Auctioned by GPO March 1, 1982
Richard L. Hopkins - Please Settle Your Account!
Richard L. Hopkins - Private Type Foundries
- 1Issue No. 63
- May 1981
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- A Most Memorable Conference
Richard L. Hopkins - After a Long Wait: A 'Jumbo' Edition
Richard L. Hopkins - Next Newsletter to Feature Typecasting from Your Shop
Richard L. Hopkins - Two Reflections on Today's Type Technology
Richard L. Hopkins - Monotype Sells Mat Libraries
Richard L. Hopkins - The Living Legend: American Type Founders Company
Richard L. Hopkins - The 'Other' ATF
Mac McGrew - International Correspondents Provide News from Afar
- Lubrication: The Key to Successful Typecaster Operation
Abe Horowitz - Nebiolo Foundry Gets Revived by Employees
Richard-Gabriel Rummonds - Letters Report Acquuitions, Interests, Unthinkable 'Typecaster'
- Three Possible Sites to Be Considered far Third ATF Conference
Richard L. Hopkins - Roster of Persons Attending 1980 New Rochelle Conference
- Classified Advertisements
- 1Issue No. 53
- May 1980
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- Summer Conference is Definite ‘Go’
Richard L. Hopkins - This Was Best in Typesetting 100 Years Ago
Richard L. Hopkins - Did You Receive Number Four of This Newsletter?
Richard L. Hopkins - Hartzell to Have Warehouse Sellout
Richard L. Hopkins - Typecasters Gather on West Coast
Richard L. Hopkins
- 1Issue No. 43
- March 1980
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- Maybe a Conference This Summer
Richard L. Hopkins - Followup to the Thompson Article
Richard L. Hopkins - Source for Engraved Matrices
Richard L. Hopkins - Bits & Pieces About Composition Caster Operation
Richard L. Hopkins - On Shipping and Storing Typecasting Equipment
Richard L. Hopkins - More People Found with Bits of Equipment
Richard L. Hopkins - Misplaced Priorities
Richard L. Hopkins - All Matrices Aren't the Same Depth
Richard L. Hopkins - More Interesting Correspondence from Caster Owners
- Modern Hand-Mold Proposal Being Developed
Richard L. Hopkins - Yes, Virginia, Once There Was Hand-Set Type for Doing Music
Richard L. Hopkins - Annenberg, Turner, pass to Eternal Monotype Kingdom in Sky
Richard L. Hopkins - Jealousy, I Call It “Disgusting”
Harold Berliner - Classified Advertisements
- Letterpress Production of First Conference Proceedings Finally Getting Underway
Richard L. Hopkins
- 1Issue No. 33
- July 1979
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- Rare Thompson Specimen Studied
Richard L. Hopkins - Useful Information on the Thompson Caster
Richard L. Hopkins - Correspondence
- A Few Classified Advertisements
- Barney Rabin Cuts His Own Linotype Mats
Richard L. Hopkins
- 1Issue No. 23
- January 1979
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- News of ATF Formation Spreads Quickly; Enquiries Are Varied
Richard L. Hopkins - Sophisticated Computer Stuff
Richard L. Hopkins - Got Authentic ‘Fat Face’ Mats?
Richard L. Hopkins - The Poor Man’s Remelt Furnace
Roy Rice - Proper Alignment for Sorts
Lanston Type Company - Equipment Acquisitions
Richard L. Hopkins - Who Was Thompson?
Richard L. Hopkins - Goudy's 'Companion'
Richard L. Hopkins - A Bit of Nostalgia from Paul Duensing
Paul Duensing - Phase Converter
Richard L. Hopkins - Czarnowski Opens Again
Richard L. Hopkins - How Do You Heat Old Bruce’s Pot?
Stan Nelson - Intercepted Letters / Messages Received
Richard L. Hopkins - On the Loaning of Matrices
Richard L. Hopkins - Hot Metal Typesetting Chill
Richard L. Hopkins - Insulating Your Thompson
Roy Rice - Koike Automatic Type Casting Machine
Richard L. Hopkins
- 1Issue No. 13
- August 1978
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- The Conference is Over But Fond Memories Remain
Richard L. Hopkins - Conference Proceedings to Be Published via Letterpress
Richard L. Hopkins - Typecasters Organization Established at Meeting
Richard L. Hopkins - Official Delegates at the Terra Alta Conference
Richard L. Hopkins - Chicago Monotype Operation Being Sold
Richard L. Hopkins - American Typefounders Listing of Old Typefaces
Richard L. Hopkins - You Are Asked for Information for Next Newsletter
Richard L. Hopkins