... honest stuff was made in those days. ChrisL A pantograph is A pantograph is “honest”?! Scale isn’t merely a slider control. ...

Forum topic - hrant - 12 Sep 2006 - 8:53am - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... was not possible > until the invention of the Benton Pantograph. But we know -for example through the testimonial here by Jim Rimmer- that the pantograph couldn't reproduce the sharpest of corners. (Let's not ...

Forum topic - John Hudson - 23 Jan 2004 - 11:03am - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... height I think you might not see it at 12 point. The pantograph angle would The pantograph angle would be interesting to pursue (although perhaps elsewhere) ...

Forum topic - Goran Soderstrom - 14 Jun 2007 - 12:19pm - 49 comments - 0 attachments

... typeface used on (plastic) engraving machines (think pantograph and stencil-like masters). A modern equivalent would be ...

Forum topic - meister - 29 Nov 2008 - 4:14pm - 6 comments - 1 attachment

... type (actually before phototype... actually before the pantograph) a given font design was for one size only, and was -generally- ...

Forum topic - ghurman - 17 Oct 2008 - 1:58am - 30 comments - 0 attachments

... and without the impetus of mechanical facilitation (the pantograph). * Which is what I call quotes that both face “in”. ...

Forum topic - Peter G. - 17 May 2005 - 9:57pm - 69 comments - 0 attachments

... an engraving plate or die, the drawing being mediated by a pantograph machine. Frederick Goudy, great American typographer, believed in the good virtues of the pantograph. But many typographers think it sounded the death-nell for type. It ...

Blog entry - nancy sharon collins - 18 Aug 2008 - 7:08am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... : Linn Boyd Benton Inventor of the Benton Pantograph, owner of the Benton Waldo Type Foundry of Milwaukee, and father ... He is best known for developing the Benton Pantograph , a pantographic cutting machine or engraver originally designed to ...

Wiki - gthompson - 18 Dec 2005 - 10:26am - 0 comments

... that quality-minded foundries had to manually overcome the pantograph's limitation(s). This is something I had a hunch about ... by (among other things) suggesting that the pantograph was not capable of cutting the sharp details required by Hrant's ...

Forum topic - hrant - 23 Aug 2003 - 10:47am - 61 comments - 0 attachments

... labor-intensive process. Linn Boyd Benton's pantograph changed that, allowing a full range of sizes to be engraved from a ...

Wiki - raph - 19 Jul 2005 - 3:14am - 0 comments