Like the Rev. Dennis Barratt (Letters, 10 January), I too was taken back in time by David Harding’s piece on printing (“From flat-bed press to flat-screen pixel”, 3 January), but was reminded of something Mr Harding did not mention. For many years when the paper was printed in Tottenham it was corrected “on the stone” as they used to say. Every Tuesday someone went from The Tablet office and checked each page for errors as it was pulled from the press. If errors were found, the printer removed the offending piece of type and replaced it. In August 1976 Tom Burns, about to go to his house in south-west Spain, asked me to undertake this task. I protested that, firstly, I did not work for the paper, and secondly, I was getting married. This latter argument shoul