Printing

We would like to thank Mr Wise and Mr Wilkoff for their help throughout the year, and Mr Hughes for his ingenuity in the Easter Term. We hope that the Walking Club will be able to continue, and provide as much enjoyment next year as we have had this year.

C.F.R.

During the past year there has been considerable development, both

in equipment and in the range and quantity of the work tackled in the Printing Room. Though housed in the Dronfield House hobbies room, the Printing Room is run by a small, but enthusiastic band from a number of Houses. The bulk of the work this year has been carried out by our

Master Printer, Gordon Fuller, and by our Master Typesetter, Michael

Christelow, aided especially by Andrew Varley and Tong Lop Bong and

a number of others who have come in from time to time.

The principal items of equipment are, first, the Intertype machine,

which produces lines (or slugs) of type from molten metal. At the

moment we have six magazines of type matrices, each with two faces, and are thus able to produce a variety of type face and size. Second, Michael Christelow was able to acquire a printer's guillotine, looking

rather like an ancient mangle (but remarkably efficient), and we can now cut card and paper to any size we require. Third, there is the printing press, which was our original machine, given to us some ten years ago. In addition we have a good stock of Monotype, of furniture (in a printing sense), of lead and brass rules and of formes and galleys for lockingup and storing type.

Over the year a steady stream of tickets, programmes, handbills, headed writing paper, forms and menus has poured out of the press, and the printers "at the Sign of the Crossed Keys" have produced the newlydesigned and revised Clothes List for the School, together with the explanatory letter to accompany it. As printing costs, in common with all others, rise frighteningly, the printers are helping the School to combat some of these rises. They have been able to do the work, partly in time

allocated within the games programme, but also by using considerable amounts of their own time.

The printers would like to place on record their gratitude for the help and advice given by Mr Walter Smith and for his friendly interest in all they do. They would also like to thank Mr Bert Black and Mr Alf Bond for their practical assistance with the printing press and the Intertype machine respectively. Both gentlemen are always ready to drop in and put matters right and instruct in the proper use of what are rather intricate pieces of machinery. They are both always ready to give friendly, and yet firm, criticism and advice and this mainly accounts for the high standards of workmanship now achieved by the School printers.