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Kōrero: Newspapers

Casting stereotype plate, 1957

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Casting stereotype plate, 1957

An alternative to producing the text of a newspaper in lines of lead type, with images added as blocks, was to produce an entire page of the paper as a single curved sheet of lead. This was called a stereotype plate. This platemaker is shown at work at the Evening Post plant in Wellington in 1957. Within 20 years this process, and all the equipment and skills associated with it, would be superseded by offset printing. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1957/2816-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Mark Derby, Newspapers – Competition and challenges, 1940–2000, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43192/casting-stereotype-plate-1957 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 31 October 2013.