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Originally Posted by unruhjonny
Having someone like Mike Noun (or that kink) as a backup is nice;
But garage sale season is upon us, and I am thinking of looking for a different typewriter - and still doing it without the complication of computer printed fonts...
I am starting to think that I might be best served with a typewriter that's nearly two decades newer than this one to get more "generic" fonts - then taking it a step further by finding one with a dedicated "1"...
It appears to me, from my cursory searching, that the cursive effect (if that's what we might call the variations in typewriter fonts) went away as computers were becoming the norm;
I'd think that in the summer of 1970 at the Norwood plant, odds are someone was at an electric typewriter, manually filling in these decals one at a time;
To me, this would also explain the variation in date and vin location on the sticker;
If this was some sort of an automated process, there should be virtually no variation in location of information on the decal.
@Dennis - thanks for the example.
Yours perfectly matches my June 1971 Norwood example.
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As someone who prints onto premade forms on a daily basis using modern technology, you would (or not) be surprised by how much variation there is in between spacing on the same pages printed with the exact same forms. The ones we use very as much as a half inch page to page, and that is with much newer equipment. I doubt an automated system back then would exact as well. Everything else you said is spot on though.