good old days

[Frog]

I have no clue what you guys are talking about!  Just think about the next generation who will have no idea what inkjet film was and how it was used.

Right, why would the shirt programmers need inkjet film to program a design for the light emitting threads used to make our new clothing?

[ebscreen]

Church key? Oil Spout? Typewriter? Lawn Darts?

LAWN DARTS ARE ILLEGAL!!!!!

Due to the same people making us jump through pthalate free hoops.

Found a set at a thrift store though, now I'm going to put someones eye out.....

[Frog]

They look a lot more potentially lethal than just putting someone's eye out!

[Orion]

When I began printing we used a tabletop dryer, I think it was an R Jennings model, anyone familiar with those? 

[Frog]

I used a four foot Ranar Scamp

[ravenmark]

When I first started doing art professionally computers did way less than a smart phone. Everything had a feel of craftsmanship to it, sitting at a drafting table with all of your squares, templates and other implements of the trade makes you feel so artistic. I even miss the the smell of wax warming in the morning , as well as the moments of solitude that went along with dark room work . On the flip side, I probably produce way more work in a 3 hours now than I did in a day back then. Something to be said for both.

[blue moon]

One thing is for sure. Graphics arts cameras notwithstanding, don't throw anything away!
The rich young folks will buy all of your junk as retro-cool! Church key? Oil Spout? Typewriter? Lawn Darts? can you say ebay?

The same lp's (that's long playing records) that I bought for a quarter when CD's took over, are often going for as much as one hundred times that now!(your results may vary  )

Reminds me of the time I put an LP on the turntable, cued a track in the middle, and my kid didn't know how I hit it right at the beginning. Had to tell him to count in, then look for the smooth spot that was the space between tracks by looking across the record so you could see the smooth spots.

gotta chuckle out of this one. . . 'wonder how many kids would be lost these days if they were given a phone with a dial?

pierre

[Frog]

One thing is for sure. Graphics arts cameras notwithstanding, don't throw anything away!
The rich young folks will buy all of your junk as retro-cool! Church key? Oil Spout? Typewriter? Lawn Darts? can you say ebay?

The same lp's (that's long playing records) that I bought for a quarter when CD's took over, are often going for as much as one hundred times that now!(your results may vary  )

Reminds me of the time I put an LP on the turntable, cued a track in the middle, and my kid didn't know how I hit it right at the beginning. Had to tell him to count in, then look for the smooth spot that was the space between tracks by looking across the record so you could see the smooth spots.

gotta chuckle out of this one. . . 'wonder how many kids would be lost these days if they were given a phone with a dial?

pierre

Yet see how some obsolete terms are still commonly in use. Some out there still type their emails to send on their dial up internet connection.

[tpitman]

When I first started doing art professionally computers did way less than a smart phone. Everything had a feel of craftsmanship to it, sitting at a drafting table with all of your squares, templates and other implements of the trade makes you feel so artistic. I even miss the the smell of wax warming in the morning , as well as the moments of solitude that went along with dark room work . On the flip side, I probably produce way more work in a 3 hours now than I did in a day back then. Something to be said for both.

My mouth hung open the first time I saw a demonstration of Pagemaker. On the other hand, at an in-house ad agency I worked at in the '80s all of our product was redrawn with Rapidograph pens on frosted acetate and stippled for shading. Stats scaled and shot on a stat camera, and ads pasted up with wax, then the second color cut with amberlith. I enjoyed doing the stuff, but one hot-as-sh!t day with a deadline at the newspaper about an hour off, I got into my oven-like Pinto station wagon with the mechanical, barely got out of the parking lot and looked down to see half the type and art sliding off the board.

[Sbrem]

that's what I'm talking about. Rapidographs were so good for touch up of fine detail positives, not to mention drawing with them. Hot wax, shooting each cut individually for paste up, all that stuff. The first time I saw vertically arched text come out of a laser printer in 60 seconds, I knew everything was going to change. That was on a MacPlus, one whole meg of RAM, and a 20 MEGABYTE external hard drive, close to $2500 with a pin printer in 1989 or 90. Oh yeah, straight black and white, no grays and certainly no color.

Steve

[ZooCity]

all of our product was redrawn with Rapidograph pens on frosted acetate and stippled for shading.

dammit that sounds awesome.