When I worked for a Certain University Publisher in their online journals team, most of my colleagues had started as apprentice typesetters in the early 80s. Though hot metal was on the way out when they'd started, they'd all trained as Monotype comps, before moving through photosetting and on to the various digital typesetting systems; they were now mostly XML-wranglers. The head of the design team had driven offset litho presses for many years, and was a still a photosetting guru. We still had a library of page negatives for OOP books, that occasionally got dug into for scanning to produce reprints; if they'd gone awol, it was usually a case of guillotining spines and feeding the block through a sheet-fed scanner before cleaning the scans up in an editing programme (oh what a fun job that was...).