Re: Cricut
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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I did film planning and plate making for a few years and quite enjoyed it.
All in reverse of course. I also remember when PMTs had nothing to do with the time of the month.
So you could say it was both a 'negative' and 'positive' experience!
I recalled correctly then LD, my part of the trade was typesetting, then paper paste up and film makeup. The 'dies' you mention were I recall, used for cutting, creasing and perforating. There was a platemaking department in the north London company where I worked, that's where I learned about opaque and red tape. Then in came new computer technology. Publishing programs meant many traditional skills, like film planning, were replaced by new skills using those programs. It's all very technical nowadays.
All in all an interesting trade with so many different aspects, many of which gave me a good 55-year working lifetime in that trade. They were definitely 'the good old days', much of it has now gone to the Dogs (the Isle of) one might say, if you see what I mean!