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2026-03-30 08:46 UTC
@ephemeral I was trained as a printer and binder in the early 1990's just as the classical matting and typesetting techniques were on their last legs. Getting TeX and PostScript installed on my PC was my main motivator for running Linux, because that was so obviously the future.
When I went off to university, the job market absolutely dried up, and I switched to working in shipyards for extra income (plus I got myself blacklisted because of labour agitation).
I enjoyed being one of only two people I was aware of at the university with custom calling cards and personalised notebooks 😹
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@ephemeral@mograph.social 2026-03-31 11:45
@tfb wow, a history worth writing up! I also loved having my own customised everything. I joined my first print shop in 2008, so much later but we still ran litho presses. One of my colleagues had worked in the company since the 1950s, and he taught me everything about design. He was a lovely man, just hitting retirement as I arrived in the door. He had done all the manual techniques like letterpress, and had trained himself up on Apple machines and Quark XPress in the 90s.