Printers’ initiation ritual
Here's a quaint old custom that the digital age has likely done away with.
Some research reveals that the ritual was known as the "banging out" ceremony. Info from the Optichrome Blog:
Below is video of a banging out ceremony that occurred in Woking around 1975.
Des Moines Register - June 13, 1965
Some research reveals that the ritual was known as the "banging out" ceremony. Info from the Optichrome Blog:
historically, apprentices in the printing industry take part in ‘banging out’.
Upon the completion of their rigorous training, print apprentices were doused with all sorts of ink and print waste materials by their colleagues, before being paraded through their factories and towns in an outlandish community-building initiation that would never pass today. This bygone tradition dated back to the Fleet Street newspaper factories, when retirees were given the same treatment whilst being serenaded by the sound of banging tools – hence the name of ‘banging out’.
Upon the completion of their rigorous training, print apprentices were doused with all sorts of ink and print waste materials by their colleagues, before being paraded through their factories and towns in an outlandish community-building initiation that would never pass today. This bygone tradition dated back to the Fleet Street newspaper factories, when retirees were given the same treatment whilst being serenaded by the sound of banging tools – hence the name of ‘banging out’.
Below is video of a banging out ceremony that occurred in Woking around 1975.
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After all that ink was poured on him he got into someones car ?
Posted by F.U.D. in Stockholm on 11/29/24 at 09:11 AM
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