[Hidden-tech] Identity of Font

[Chris Hoogendyk]

Sounds like what you got was a mainframe server room printer that was 
almost a dinosaur by the time you got it.

https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/jim_hall/laserjet_page_00.htm

By the early 1990s HP was making Laserjets of a size that we are more 
familiar with.


-- 
Chris Hoogendyk
胡可思

Amherst, MA
<chris.hoogendyk at gmail.com>
<choogendyk at earthlink.net>

Erdös 4


On 6/25/24 10:37 AM, Michael Muller wrote:
>
> Wow, that's a blast from the past. In 1991 a co-worker of my dad 
> called and said their office was getting rid of a laserjet printer and 
> asked if I wanted it. I said sure, thinking it was a typical table-top 
> printer. When I got home from work there was this massive, 
> double-wide, blue metal monstrosity in my driveway about the size of a 
> VW bug. The printer part was built into a desk with the tiny monitor 
> and everything. No wheels. I have a photo of it somewhere. We kept it 
> in the garage for a couple weeks until we realized we didn't have the 
> toner nor the manual, so we rolled it out to the curb and took a 
> sawz-all to it. Was most satisfying.
>
> Mik
>
> Mik Muller, president
> Montague WebWorks
> 20 River Street, Greenfield, MA
> 413-320-5336
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> On 6/24/2024 7:14 PM, Chris Hoogendyk via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>>
>> BINGO!!!
>>
>> It is Poetica! individual characters are an exact match and the 
>> special glyphs that I used are there. And, because it is Adobe and I 
>> have access to Adobe Creative Cloud, I should be able to access it.
>>
>> Ages ago, in a previous life, 1987-1990, I ran one of the first 
>> graphic arts service bureaus with a Linotronic Imagesetter ($$$). I 
>> had pretty much the entire Adobe typeface collection ($$) as well as 
>> quite a few small foundry typefaces. I still have a lot of those in 
>> old backup files, but they are Type 1 and fontographer files.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> -- 
>> Chris Hoogendyk
>> 胡可思
>>
>> Amherst, MA
>> <chris.hoogendyk at gmail.com>
>> <choogendyk at earthlink.net>
>>
>> Erdös 4
>>
>>
>> On 6/24/24 5:35 PM, Ben wrote:
>>> https://www.myfonts.com/collections/poetica-font-adobe?tab=glyphs
>>>
>>> The font looked tantalizingly familiar, I asked elsewhere and came 
>>> up with this. There are lots of variations on letters with over 1400 
>>> glyphs! Nice font.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ben Lazan
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM Chris Hoogendyk via Hidden-discuss 
>>> <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I would very much appreciate it if anyone could tell me what
>>>     font this
>>>     is and where I can get a current version of it (not a Postscript
>>>     Type 1
>>>     font).
>>>
>>>     This is something that I probably acquired in the late 1980s,
>>>     and it
>>>     could have been a small craft type house. I used it for a
>>>     project around
>>>     1997 that the following two samples are scanned from. I may even
>>>     still
>>>     have the Postscript Type 1 font, but these are unreadable with
>>>     current
>>>     systems.
>>>
>>>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KzJ2CNCU1GwEykXJmYGfHMysXtX095Xs/view?usp=sharing
>>>
>>>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LHeceudhY5PW6eKj1sx430K_3jJ9oUrT/view?usp=sharing
>>>
>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     Chris Hoogendyk
>>>     胡可思
>>>
>>>     Amherst, MA
>>>     <chris.hoogendyk at gmail.com>
>>>     <choogendyk at earthlink.net>
>>>
>>>     Erdös 4
>>>
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