Those tickets you posted are old argentinian bus tickets.
If the number was a palyndrom (like, 54045) the ticket was considerated as an amulet. This ended when the ticket machines and their thermical printers invaded the old buses.
Beautiful. I wonder what the cheapest way to approximate letterpress style printing might be without having to have a letter press? Lovely bleeding and slight jogging of the baselines as the number ticker on the press increases…
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Those tickets you posted are old argentinian bus tickets.
If the number was a palyndrom (like, 54045) the ticket was considerated as an amulet. This ended when the ticket machines and their thermical printers invaded the old buses.
Nov 20th, 2009 / 5:44 pm
Beautiful. I wonder what the cheapest way to approximate letterpress style printing might be without having to have a letter press? Lovely bleeding and slight jogging of the baselines as the number ticker on the press increases…
Nov 23rd, 2009 / 1:38 am