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Thread Number: 28278
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
what is this old thing for |
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| Post# 316022 2/19/2015 at 04:49 (3,354 days old) by citroenbx (england) | ||
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| Post# 316025 , Reply# 1 2/19/2015 at 06:11 (3,354 days old) by vacuumlover (UK) | ||
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Cool but weird Huh for once something that has baffled me lol. No idea what it is | ||
Post# 316027 , Reply# 2 2/19/2015 at 06:14 (3,354 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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Printers plates for printing images of Hoover vacuums? | ||
| Post# 316055 , Reply# 3 2/19/2015 at 10:10 (3,353 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN) | ||
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printing blocks Probably from Hoover for a dealer to lay out ads in local newspaper.Some companies would pay part of ad fees based on number of vacs a dealer purchased.Similar blocks are sometimes seen at flea mkt/antique shows.Could be used for custom stationary. | ||
| Post# 316058 , Reply# 4 2/19/2015 at 10:17 (3,353 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 316070 , Reply# 5 2/19/2015 at 11:15 (3,353 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
Definitely printing 'slugs' from the long ago lead type era, which went by the wayside about 40 years ago. These days, offset printing plates are thin sheets of aluminum, coated with a photographic emulsion. The standard for the past 20 years or so has been 'direct to plate', which means the page is laid out on the computer in a desktop publishing program like QuarkXPress or InDesign and then printed to the plate that goes on the press. It's a pretty cool artifact, though.
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| Post# 316093 , Reply# 6 2/19/2015 at 14:52 (3,353 days old) by citroenbx (england) | ||
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