Originally published at: The wonderful world of antique ledger printers | Boing Boing
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Those machines are truly wonderful things.
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He should take a look at a Linotype machine. I saw one when I was a teenager and it made a big impression.
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“Basically, every business had its own style—”
“Of ledger—”
“Yeah— […] So, basically you would call up your stationery printer […] and say Hi it’s me, my re-order number is 727, I need a hundred more ledgers, or ten more ledgers, of whatever, and they would look in their own ledger…”
It was ledgers all the way down! 
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