What skill did you learn, that can be considered obsolete in this day and age?
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Long before the days of indesign and pagemaker, we laid out our college newspaper the "old fashioned way" - by printing articles in columns, cutting them out and running them through a wax machine so they would stick to the boards. The wax would always get all over everything, and I'd often find bits of it in my hair during class.
May 20, 2010 17:26 by mandy716
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thank god I never had to do this. Closest I came to a manual operation like this was making copies of size D drafted drawings using a blueprint copier. If you didn't keep the rolls covered, the sunlight would develop the sheets and it would be useless. Also the devlopers would get weak over the years, so you'd have to run them twice and you hoped you got it aligned just right so that you didn't get a ghost image. And then there was cutting it with the string, if it wasn't taught and sharp, you wouldn't get a clean cut, you'd get a curly tear.