David Harding’s brief history of the printing of The Tablet (“From flat-bed press to flat-screen pixel”, 3 January) took me back in time to when I signed a seven-year indenture at the tender age of 15 and became a “printer’s devil”! Later, during National Service, I was transferred to the Printing Department of the Royal Army Ordnance Corp where I learned all about offset litho as distinct from letterpress printing. In civvy street I graduated to being a full-blown Linotype operator on the old Daily Herald. When this newspaper became The Sun, we compositors/Linotype operators transferred to the composing room of the News of the World just off Fleet Street. This move meant we all became technically redundant and received cash compensation; I used my payo