letraset transfers (2 Viewers)

[carbide]

any suggestions on where to find them in dublin? or online? (letraset.com charges €15 minimum for delivery by courier, eek!)

lots of typefaces and images would be nice, but even a few sheets of helvetica would be a start.

these were everywhere a couple of years ago, right? i feel a bit rip van winkel.

 

[HMD]

i didn't think they still made them. What are you using it for?

 

[Goff]

I think they have them in O'Sullivan Graphics off Aungier Street (Grantham Street?). A while since I was up there though. And I seem to remember them being expensive enough.

I wonder do Evan's have them (off Mary's Abbey, near Capel Street)?

Remember the little little cartoon ones you used to get, with superheroes, etc. and you'd have a background and you could make up your own story?

 

[MARYJANE]

i'm pretty sure i saw some around in the last few weeks. if i saw them it was probably in evans's, or maybe easons on o'connell st. but maybe u've tried those places already. u might be able to get evans to order some in for you.

 

[HMD]

they were called Calkeytoes or something. I had the star wars one of the ice battle.

I think they have them in O'Sullivan Graphics off Aungier Street (Grantham Street?). A while since I was up there though. And I seem to remember them being expensive enough.

I wonder do Evan's have them (off Mary's Abbey, near Capel Street)?

Remember the little little cartoon ones you used to get, with superheroes, etc. and you'd have a background and you could make up your own story?

 

[MARYJANE]

I think they have them in O'Sullivan Graphics off Aungier Street (Grantham Street?). A while since I was up there though. And I seem to remember them being expensive enough.

I wonder do Evan's have them (off Mary's Abbey, near Capel Street)?

Remember the little little cartoon ones you used to get, with superheroes, etc. and you'd have a background and you could make up your own story?

o'sullivans moved or something, i was there before xmas, the place was a mess. they didn't seem to have any signs up saying where they were moving to. edit: so maybe they closed down

 

[Goff]

o'sullivans moved or something, i was there before xmas, the place was a mess. they didn't seem to have any signs up saying where they were moving to. edit: so maybe they closed down

Feck! They always had some great bargains.

And Kennedy's is so bloody expensive.

 

[Goff]

they were called Calkeytoes or something. I had the star wars one of the ice battle.

There were loads apparently.

http://www.seven-wonders.co.uk/atranges.html

God, I love the 'net.

EDIT: Closest I could find....

 

[Goff]

Phew! O'Sullivan's are still there.

Forgot to ask them about Letraset though.

O'Sullivan Graphics, 23-25 Grantham Street, Dublin 8, Ireland | t: +353 1 4700890

 

[swingkid]

reads on nassau st have them...

 

[cpr]

good stuff...i need some too!yay!

 

[pete]

they were called Calkeytoes or something. I had the star wars one of the ice battle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalkitos

 

[Goff]

I just found these after a root:

I remember rubbing Supergirl....

I found six of them.

I'm pretty sure they were only called Kalkitos in America.

 

[Anthony]

I'm pretty sure they were only called Kalkitos in America.

No, they were called Kalkitos here too.

 

[Goff]

Apparently, they were different things. Letraset rivals, I assume. Kalkitos are probably the Lidl version.

Strange that, 'cos I always knew them as both, just thought that one was johnny foreign. Like Marathon and Snickers, way back when.

I don't remember them selling Kalkitos in the 17 shops in Cabra. Only the Letraset.

Anyone got any more info on these things? I'm fascinated.

 

[Anthony]

Letraset (and others) are just letters*. Kalkitos was pictures that you transfered on a supplied background. There was a knack to it. I had that star wars posted earlier. The transfers always ended up on your copies.

edit* there was oter stuff besides letters

 

[Anthony]

 

[Goff]

edit* there was other stuff besides letters

See my post above. They're "Letraset Action Transfers" and "Mini-Toons" with bits rubbed on by me. From the youth. And in the case of Supergirl, bits rubbed off by the looks of it....

The amount of rubbish I still have. Action Man anyone?

 

[Anthony]

Action Man anyone?

hang on to them man. they only release action man every now and then. My parents went ebay hunting for action men for christmas presents a few months ago.

 

[carbide]

i didn't think they still made them. What are you using it for?

a few little projects, nothing terribly important. i imagine they were a right pain in the arse to use precisely in large amounts, but i'm not a big one for precision, so, perfect.

reads on nassau st have them...

hooray, thank you! i got fed up before i checked there.


and, evans definitely don't carry them, or anything from letraset (they were most specific), although they suggested flynn's opposite DIT bolton street, which i didn't get to check either.

(i never knew kalkitos had a name! always hated the shape of the plastic burnishing tool.)