Re: [GBW] Type

["harcourt bindery" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For "service type" (non brass) try Ernest Schaeffer Inc. Lehigh Avenue, 
Union, N.J.
Sam Ellenport
Harcourt Bindery, Inc
51 Melcher Street
Boston, MA 02210
617-542-5858
fax: 617-451-9058
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rollin Polk" <rpolk1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [GBW] Type


> Lesha Shaver wrote:
>  Hi everyone. Happy 2007
>  I am looking to buy some type (18pt and 24pt), and wonder if anyone has 
> any
>  opinions on where to buy??? I guess the brass is out of my price range, 
> so
>  I'm looking at zinc. I'll be using it in a Kwik Print.
>
> Lesha--Just found your old email!  Maybe you know how to send out this 
> info to
> a binder's list!
>                                                          Rollin
>
> I've been a letterpress printer,  so have known some sources, but brass 
> only  from:
>      American Printing Equipment & Supply Co.
>  (Just found their web site!) 
> http://www.americanprintingequipment.com/foundrytype.htm
>    Current info--
>      Phone #: 516-437-9105
>     Fax #: 516-437-9107
> Corporate Headquarters:
> American Printing Equipment & Supply Co.
> 153 Meacham Ave.
> Elmont, NY 11003
> USA
>
> "Our Company furnishes "Mazak" Super Hard Zinc Type and Extra Hard Foundry 
> Type.
> Cast by Stephenson Blake, England, one the worlds foremost type founders. 
> The Type is deep cast and long lasting. "Mazak" Zinc Type is designed as a 
> replacement for Brass Type. The zinc is cast extra deep and the hardness 
> enables the type to outlast the hardest foundry type 10 to 1. Brass Type 
> is still available at limited font selections as well as Mazak and Extra 
> Hard Foundry Type at limited selections."
>
>
> This place is still operating (but no brass) selling the lead-tin/antimony 
> composition,
>  suitable for short runs like we do for book titling:
>         NA Graphics   (Fritz Klinke)  Used to be in Cincinnati)
>         PO Box 467
>         1314 Greene Street
>         Silverton, Colorado  81433
>
> --
> ROLLIN'S BINDERY
> 207 Veda Mae Drive
> San Antonio, Texas  78216-7136
> (210) 342-7163
> Cell phone (210)  859-5132
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