[Editors] print wheel

Marsha Sanders marshas at MIT.EDU
Tue Oct 19 21:12:48 EDT 2004


I can't speak for the others, but I feel like a dinosaur! I studied graphic 
design before PCs and Macs....it is a bit humbling. On the other hand, 
everything is soooo much easier now!
Marsha

At 09:07 PM 10/19/2004 -0400, Scott Campbell wrote:

>How old ARE you guys?  I thought I had seniority.  My proportion wheel WAS 
>plastic -- it is long gone -- and I don't even know what some of these 
>other things are.I still have Pantone books, though.
>
>At 8:41 PM -0400 10/19/04, Marsha Sanders wrote:
>>Sounds like we all studied design in the same old dark ages! Do any of 
>>you still have any rubylith? (my proportion wheel is cardboard, too.)
>>Marsha
>>
>>At 07:36 PM 10/19/2004 -0400, William T G Litant wrote:
>>>Yes, I still have my proportion wheel .. but PLASTIC?? Mine is 
>>>cardboard. I also
>>>have a blue pencil, a t-square, various X=Acto knives, some Pantone 
>>>charts and
>>>paper pickers, photo spotting dyes, my Kodak Darkroom Dataguide (with 
>>>neutral
>>>density chart), a set of French curves, a rubber cement pickup that I've 
>>>been
>>>growing since 1977 ...
>>>
>>>Bill Litant
>>>
>>>
>>>Quoting Debbie Levey <levey at MIT.EDU>:
>>>
>>>>        Now that I've progressed to moveable type, I wondered if
>>>>  anyone else still uses a print wheel (2 attached plastic circles, one
>>>>  inside the other, purely mechanical) to size pictures.
>>>>
>>>>  Debbie
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