Mo's my Uncle In law. I remember talking to him about printing like this at my grandpa's funeral and he actually gave me some good stories. Great job, Uncle Mo!
The California Job Case - has a cool story. Before the California Job Case the type was kept in 2 cases. Upper & Lower, We still use this term today, Upper & Lower but we use the shift key on our computers.Cool video about printing. 😎
The Job case came about because of the invention of Linotype and Monotype. Large numbers of pages of type no longer needed to be set by hand! The jobbing case was used for corrections and display setting. Used both in my 30 years or so as a compositor in the UK.
William Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat, and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, in 1476,
It's because when you use what is essentially a stamp you're going to get a mirrored image on the paper. If the text stamps weren't mirrored then the print would end up backwards on the paper
This video is full of errors, starting with "depending on the font" and "letter by letter, and you also had to do it backwards" these statements are stercoraceous at best.
