... To briefly sum up what I've learned about Benton's optical scaling technology implemented about 100 years ago, there ... a single master drawing using expert manipulations of the pantograph. Mac McGrew has been extremely informative on this point, though I ...

Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 2:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments

... in collaboration with Patricia or others) describing the Benton optical scaling techniques in detail. But my cutting slip ... or, to work with someone that understand the “Benton Pantograph”. I am a little busy or I would offer to help. I could ...

Forum topic - raph - 12 Mar 2006 - 11:33am - 14 comments - 0 attachments

... The general point that Southworth makes about all the post-Benton pantographic cutters is that all relied extensively on the craftsmen ... scaling, and they actually tried to get users of the pantograph to maintain that attribute. Unfortunately it was still easier ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 10 Feb 2006 - 11:51am - 36 comments - 1 attachment

Indices : Designers : Linn Boyd Benton Inventor of the Benton Pantograph, owner of the Benton Waldo Type Foundry of Milwaukee, and father ...

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

... which allowed an increase in sharpness and detail, and the Benton punchcutter of the 1880s, which allowed type to be made more directly ... punchcutters working by eye. With Benton’s device, a pantograph followed the letter shapes as drawn, and transferred these directly ...

Forum topic - vinylcut - 9 Nov 2005 - 3:57pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments

... Surely this division of labor only occurred after LB Benton's pantograph (1880s)? Prior to that, letterpress type manufacture was in ...

Forum topic - speter - 12 Apr 2005 - 8:38am - 44 comments - 0 attachments

... an extremely 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