Newspaper Relics: Pica Poles, Proportion Wheels - Gary Borders
WEBJul 11, 2014 · A pica pole, still used by old-timers like me when we want to sketch out a design on paper before committing it to the computer, or need to measure a published ad, is a metal rule. The measurement increments are in picas (one-sixth of an inch), points (72 points to an inch), metric (for the rest of the world) and inches (for us Americans).
Cyberfun brings back the good old days | Texas Press Association
WEB3 days ago · Hermetically sealed and perpetually preserved in their cabinet in the dry heat of the Panhandle is an impressive collection of pica poles, proportion wheels, waxers, Letraset burnishers and numerous other hot- and cold-type artifacts to warm the cockles of a vintage news hound’s cold heart.
Gary Borders: Once upon a time, there was a pica pole
WEBAug 15, 2014 · Newspaperman Gary Borders just can't part with his trusty pica pole. It serves him well as publisher of the Mt. Pleasant Daily Tribune.
Compositor's Tools - Letterpress Commons
WEBLine gauges, sometimes called pica poles, are well-known even to today’s printers who have never touched a piece of metal type. The oldest ones are square foot-long pieces of boxwood, each face stamped with measurements in …
Old-fashioned journo jargon - Glossophilia
WEBPica pole (also known as a line gauge, a pica stick, and nowadays as a gaebel ruler) – A metal ruler used by printers in the composing room to measure type by picas (12 points to the pica, six picas to the inch). The pica pole is pounded against a metal surface in the ritual of banging out an employee leaving the premises for the last time.
H.B Rouse Brass Ruler, Does anyone have any info on this.
WEBFeb 2, 2016 · Nothing regional about Pica Pole—used almost everywhere I’ve been, and historically printers, especially comps, travelled far and wide during their careers. Often one of the things a retired printer kept (and still does) was his line gauge/pica pole, and often a composing stick.
Pica Pole - Texas Escapes
WEBJun 10, 2010 · A thin length of brass (the older ones) or aluminum, a pica pole measures inches on one side, ems or picas, on the other. In the pre-computer days, pica poles played a small but fundamental part in the newspaper production process.
Are inches or picas better? | Before & After | Design Talk - McWade
WEBJun 27, 2012 · An old-fashioned, traditional pica is .000622 inch shorter than this, so physical rulers no longer work. I’m unaware of any physical pica rulers (also called pica poles) that use the modern, computer pica.
Printers Still Use Pica Poles - The Oklahoman
WEBFeb 17, 1993 · I still use another old-time printing tool, a pica pole - that being the nickname for a line gauge which is a metal ruler with printers' measurements (6- and 12-point, agate and inches on mine).
Pica poles, proportion wheels, paper dummies: Objects of visual …
WEBPica poles, proportion wheels, paper dummies: Objects of visual power in 20th century newsrooms. Accepted for presentation to Objects of Journalism: Media, Materiality, and the News, an International Communication Association preconference, June 17, 2013, London.